Evidence-Based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions

by J.A. Muir Gray

Book Overview

A textbook on evidence based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.

Recently the evidence based medicine movement has been one of the most important influences on medicine. It involves the basing of clinical decisions on the best available evidence from systematic research. This book explains how evidence based decision making can be applied to health policy and management decisions about groups of patients and populations, rather than decisions about the treatment of individuals.

Its first edition was well reviewed and highly successful, and this new edition builds upon the success of the first.Covers the vital areas for healthcare managers Finding and appraising evidence.Developing the capacity of individuals and organisations to use evidence.Implementation getting research into practiceIndispensable for those making difficult decisions about the use of scarce resources.Well written described by the BMJ as a dazzling mixture of formal definitions, concepts, guiding principles, cautionary tales, frameworks for analysis, checklists for action and home truths.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443062889
• ISBN13: 9780443062889
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellant companion book for practice development

This book is written in an accessible and practical format. It assumes nothing but at the same time treats the reader as an intelligent participant on the journey to understanding evidence based practice.It is up to date and I was especially impressed with the web address it gives to ensure the reader is kept abreast of any changes since publication. It systematically explains the need and use of 'evidence', how to find it (the search advice is comprehensive and includes details such as search terms and the best search engines aswell as web addresses) how to evaluate it and also how to act on it.All in all this book was great, and I would reccomend it to anyone involved in evidence based healthcare practice as it will guide you through the thorniest problems.