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ACHIEVING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
Achieving Evidence-Based Practice
A Handbook for Practitioners
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Second Edition

By
Susan Hamer, BA, MA, RGN, FETC(Dist), NDNCert, Programme Director and Coordinator, Centre for the Development of Health Care Policy and Practice, University of Leeds, UK
Gill Collinson, RGN, BSc, MA, AdvDipTherapeuticCounselling&ManagementChange, Programme Director, Centre for the Development of Health Care Policy and Practice, University of Leeds; Development Consultant, GC Consulting, Leeds, UK

Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book provides a practical introduction to and overview of the development and implementation of evidence-based practice. It focuses on how to look for and appraise the available evidence, how to apply the evidence using a variety of approaches and in different organisational contexts, and how to understand different dimensions of personal and organisational change and its ethical components.

Audience
All undergraduate diploma and degree level students in the healthcare professions and qualified practitioners taking postgraduate courses which include a research component

Contents


Section 1. Looking for the evidence.

Evidence-based practice.
Types of evidence.
Systematic reviews.
Information sourcing.


Section 2.


Applying the evidence.

Clinical effectiveness.
Development of practice.
Audit.


Section 3 Reflecting upon the evidence.

Personal change.
Organisational change.
Ethical change.

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2776-5
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2776-6
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL


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