Evidence-based healthcare and public health : how to make decisions about health services and public health / Sir Muir Gray.
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2009.Edition: 3rd ed. / chapter 9 co-written by Sasha Shepperd /editor, Erica Ison /editorial assistant, Rosemary Lees /information scientist Nicola Pearce-SmithDescription: xxv, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780443101236 (pbk.) :
- 9780443101236
- 044310123X
- 362.1068 22
- RA971
- R723.7 .G73 2009
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Previous ed.: published as Evidence-based healthcare. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : the globalisation of healthcare problems and their solutions -- Evidence-based health services -- 'Doing the right things right' -- Making decisions about health services -- Finding good-quality evidence -- Appraising the quality of research -- Assessing the outcomes found -- Evidence-based health service management -- Evidence-based public health -- Developing the skills of individuals -- Evidence-based clinical practice -- Epilogue : evidence-based healthcare in the 21st century.
As the demand for health services rises & the pressure on these services grows, decisions about the use of scarce resources are becoming even more difficult to make & more explicit. This text provides healthcare managers with the knowledge they need.
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