Evidence-Based Health Care and Public Health
How to Make Decisions About Health Services and Public Health
By- Muir Gray, Kt, CBE, DSc, MD, Director, National Knowledge Service, NHS; NHS Chief Knowledge Officer; Professor of Knowledge Management, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford; Director, Better Value Healthcare Ltd, UK
A guide to evidence-based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.
Paperback, 448 Pages
Published: November 2008
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-10123-6
Contents
- Prologue: The globalisation of healthcare problems and their solutions. Evidence-Based healthcare. Doing the right things right. Making decisions about health services. Searching for evidence. Appraising the quality of research. Assessing the outcomes found. The evidence-based organisation. Evidence-based public health. Developing the evidence management skills of individuals. The evidence-based consultation. Epilogue: Evidence-based healthcare in the post-modern era.
