Evidence-based practice across the health professions / Tammy Hoffmann, Sally Bennett, Chris Del Mar.

By: Hoffmann, Tammy [author.].

Contributor(s): Bennett, Sally, PhD [author.] | Del Mar, Chris [author.].

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BookPublisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2017Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xii, 439 : illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780729542555.Subject(s): Clinical medicine -- Decision making

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| Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Medicine: general issues | Public health & preventive medicineDDC classification: 610.73 HOF Summary: A contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice. Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice.

Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.

Featuring a multi-disciplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines, including:
- Clinical exercise physiology - Optometry
- Complementary and alternative medicine - Paramedicine
- Human movement (exercise science) - Pharmacy
- Medical imaging - Physiotherapy
- Medicine - Podiatry
- Nursing - Radiation Therapy
- Nutrition and dietetics - Speech pathology
- Medicine
- Occupational Therapy

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Previous edition: 2013.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice. Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. vii)
Authors (p. viii)
Contributors (p. ix)
Reviewers (p. xiii)
Preface (p. xiv)
1 Introduction to evidence-based practice (p. 1)
2 Information needs, asking questions, and some basics of research studies (p. 16)
3 Finding the evidence (p. 41)
4 Evidence about effects of interventions (p. 64)
5 Questions about the effects of interventions: examples of appraisals from different health professions (p. 102)
6 Evidence about diagnosis (p. 136)
7 Questions about diagnosis: examples of appraisals from different health professions (p. 159)
8 Evidence about prognosis (p. 185)
9 Questions about prognosis: examples of appraisals from different health professions (p. 202)
10 Understanding evidence from qualitative research (p. 226)
11 Understanding evidence from qualitative research: examples of assessment of quality (critical appraisal) from different health professions (p. 248)
12 Appraising and interpreting systematic reviews (p. 292)
13 Clinical practice guidelines (p. 323)
14 Shared decision making (p. 337)
15 Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice (p. 364)
16 Implementing evidence: closing research-practice gaps (p. 384)
17 Embedding evidence-based practice into routine clinical care (p. 409)
Index (p. 428)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tammy Hoffmann BOccThy (Hons 1), PhD Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Sally Bennett BOccThy (Hons), PhD Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Chris Del Mar BSc, MA, MB BChir, MD, FRACGP, FAFPHM Professor of Public Health and academic General Practitioner, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia