Evidence Based Practice in Primary

2. 2. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1568-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Evidence Based Practice in Primary Health Care is split into two sections. The frist discusses how the individual can apply evidence based medicine in the clinical setting, and the second covers the wider issue of changes in organisation and strategy to promote better and more effective delivery of care within a practice or primary care group. Chapters are writtten by leading specialists in evidence based primary care from Australlia, the UK,and mainland Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silagy, Christopher

Haines, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.

Preface to the second edition.

Getting started: how to set priorities and define questions.

Tracking down the evidence.

Critical appraisal.

Applying the evidence with patients.

Screening and diagnostic tests.

Evaluating the application of evidence.

An overview of strategies to promote implementation of evidence based health care.

Clinical practice guidelines.

Role of information technology.

Continuing medical education as a means of lifelong learning.

Integrating research evidence into practice.

Appendix 1: Using MEDLINE to search for evidence.

Appendix 2: Some further sources of information and resources that facilitate evidence-based practice.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Allen Silagy AO - 14 September 1960 - 13 December 2001 - was an advocate of evidence-based medicine and an evaluator of health care programs. He was Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research at Monash Medical School and he was also founder of the Australasian Cochrane Centre.