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This series of articles by Trish Greenhalgh was published in the BMJ and is also available as a book from BMJ Publications:
How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine. 2nd ed. London: BMJ, 2001.
W 20.5 G813h 2001 [Regular Loan] Health Sciences
 

How to read a paper. The Medline database
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7101): 180-3. [Full text]

Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7102): 243-246. [Full-text]

Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7103): 305-308. [Full-text]

Statistics for the non-statistician: Different types of data need different statistical tests
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7104): 364-366. [Full-text]

Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7105): 422-425 [Full-text]

Papers that report drug trials
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7106): 480-483. [Full-text]

Papers that report diagnostic or screening test
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7107): 540-543. [Full-text]

Papers that tell you what things costs (economic analyses)
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7108): 596-599. [Full-text]

Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
            Greenhalgh T.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7109): 672-675. [Full-text]

Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
            Greenhalgh T, Taylor R.
            BMJ 1997; 315(7110): 740-743. [Full-text]