BCPS Certification
Below is a list of articles for pharmacists participating in BCPS certification. Click on the article titles for the full-text PDF articles.
Access to the Library's collection of electronic resources is restricted to affiliated users of The Queen's Medical Center. ID and Password are required from remote locations. Remote access may be further limited to certain affiliated users for selected resources.
Users agree to abide by all rules and regulations of The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Medical Library including its Electronic Resource Use Policy and not to make unauthorized use of another party's intellectual property.
Warning Concerning Copyright Restriction:
The copyright law of the United State (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.
Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of the specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Statistics
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 1, Basic concepts. Gaddis ML, Gaddis GM. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 Jan;19(1):86-9.
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 2, Descriptive statistics. Gaddis GM, Gaddis ML. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 Mar;19(3):309-15.
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 3, Sensitivity, specificity, predictive value, and hypothesis testing. Gaddis GM, Gaddis ML. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 May;19(5):591-7.
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 4, statistical inference techniques in hypothesis testing. Gaddis GM, Gaddis ML. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 Jul;19(7):820-5.
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 5, Statistical inference techniques for hypothesis testing with nonparametric data. Gaddis GM, Gaddis ML. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 Sep;19(9):1054-9.
- Introduction to biostatistics: Part 6, Correlation and regression. Gaddis ML, Gaddis GM. Ann Emerg Med. 1990 Dec;19(12):1462-8.
Literature Evaluation
- Users' guides to the medical literature. II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. B. What were the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, Cook DJ. JAMA. 1994 Jan 5;271(1):59-63.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL. JAMA. 1994 Mar 2;271(9):703-7.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. IV. How to use an article about harm. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Levine M, Walter S, Lee H, Haines T, Holbrook A, Moyer V. JAMA. 1994 May 25;271(20):1615-9.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. V. How to use an article about prognosis. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Laupacis A, Wells G, Richardson WS, Tugwell P. JAMA. 1994 Jul 20;272(3):234-7.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. VI. How to use an overview. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Oxman AD, Cook DJ, Guyatt GH. JAMA. 1994 Nov 2;272(17):1367-71.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. VII. How to use a clinical decision analysis. A. Are the results of the study valid? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Richardson WS, Detsky AS. JAMA. 1995 Apr 26;273(16):1292-5.
- Users' guides to the Medical Literature. VIII. How to use clinical practice guidelines. B. what are the recommendations and will they help you in caring for your patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Wilson MC, Hayward RS, Tunis SR, Bass EB, Guyatt G. JAMA. 1995 Nov 22-29;274(20):1630-2.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. IX. A method for grading health care recommendations. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Guyatt GH, Sackett DL, Sinclair JC, Hayward R, Cook DJ, Cook RJ. JAMA. 1995 Dec 13;274(22):1800-4.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. X. How to use an article reporting variations in the outcomes of health services. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Naylor CD, Guyatt GH. JAMA. 1996 Feb 21;275(7):554-8.
- Users' guides to the medical literature. XI. How to use an article about a clinical utilization review. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Naylor CD, Guyatt GH. JAMA. 1996 May 8;275(18):1435-9.
Pharmacoeconomics
- A clinician's guide to cost-effectiveness analysis. Detsky AS, Naglie IG. Ann Intern Med. 1990 Jul 15;113(2):147-54.
- Clinical economics. A guide to the economic analysis of clinical practices. Eisenberg JM. JAMA. 1989 Nov 24;262(20):2879-86.
- Use and misuse of pharmacoeconomic terms: a definitions primer. Sanchez LA, Lee J. Top Hosp Pharm Manage. 1994 Jan;13(4):11-22.
- Assesment of quality-of-life outcomes. Testa MA, Simonson DC. N Engl J Med. 1996 Mar 28;334(13):835-40.