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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, 274-275, April 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Making Sense of Data: A Self-instruction Manual on the Interpretation of Epidemiological Data, 3rd edn

J. H. Abramson and Z. H. Abramson Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 367 pp, ISBN 0195145259 (pb)

Gail Louw, Senior Lecturer

Postgraduate Medical School University of Brighton

This superb book is a real boost to anyone attempting to interpret data from studies accurately. It provides the necessary tools, aided and abetted by the reader's common sense, to allow for a systematic and informed approach to interpreting and using data on which to base clinical and healthcare decisions.

Inaccurate and inappropriate interpretation of data is a major hindrance to effective clinical decision making. This book aids the reader in acquiring those skills which would allow him or her to differentiate data that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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