Are you preparing for the Pharmacotherapy or Ambulatory Care Board of Pharmacy Specialties examination? Would you like to bolster your knowledge of and confidence in the use of biostatistical tests? Are you teaching literature evaluation to students or residents? ACCP has developed the Clinical Pharmacist’s Guide to Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation to assist you in preparing for the certification examination and/or applying this knowledge in other settings.

Contents of the guide include sections on the Basics of Biostatistics and Statistical Tests, including how to choose the appropriate statistical test for your application, and Literature Interpretation and Application to Patient Care, with chapters on interpreting results from clinical trials and pharmacoepidemiology.

Each chapter includes a selected bibliography and self-assessment questions designed to test your understanding of the material. A table of helpful equations appears at the front of the book, to help as you work through the questions. And the answers to the self-assessment questions are included in the back of the book.

If you are involved in interpreting the medical literature to optimize patient care, improve health outcomes, or generate hypotheses for research, an understanding of biostatistics is essential to your success. The Clinical Pharmacist’s Guide to Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation is available now through the ACCP Bookstore at http://www.accp.com/bookstore/ro_01cpgbl.aspx.