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A Primer for Health Care Professionals
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Second Edition
By
Martin Dawes, MD, FRCGP, Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Oxford, UK
Description
The book is a comprehensive guide to all the main strands of EBHC - finding and implementing evidence for use in clinical practice. Its
focus is health professionals in the primary care field, and it consciously uses case examples from a variety of professional contexts.
Examples and questions relevant to primary care practice are featured throughout the text. It discusses principles as well as practice,
and provides guidance for teachers.
Audience
All primary health care practitioners:
GP's; Community based nurses; OT's, physios; psychologists; public health workers
Healthcare managers
Contents
1. Evidence -based practice.
2. Formulating a question.
3. Finding the evidence: an information skills approach.
4. Introduction to critical appraisal.
5. Randomised controlled trials.
6. Studies assessing diagnostic tests.
7. Case series and reports.
8. Case control studies.
9. Systematic review.
10. Economic evaluation.
11. Qualitative research.
12. Critical appraisal of clinical guidelines.
13. Is this test effective?
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Is this therapy effective?
15. Is the intervention cost-effective?
16. Context specificity: how was the study performed?
17. Introducing change.
18. Evaluating change.
19. Teaching evidence-based health care.
20. Defeating
unknowingness.
Index
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Paperback, 272 pages, publication date: OCT-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07299-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-07299-X
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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