Achieving Evidence-Based Practice
A Handbook for Practitioners

Susan Hamer (Author), Gill Collinson (Author)

9780702027765, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback, published 17 November 2005

236 pages
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.386 kg

"This is a welcome updated version of a key handbook... This book is easy to read and well structured. Each chapter starts with a 'key issues' box, and the text is interspersed with tabls, diagrams and illustrations...it is a useful book to ahve around." Nursing Standard Vol 20 No 33.

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. This book provides a practical introduction to and overview of the development and implementation of evidence-based practice. It focuses on how to look for and appraise the available evidence, how to apply the evidence using a variety of approaches and in different organisational contexts, and how to understand different dimensions of personal and organisational change and its ethical components.

• Numerous examples from practice and case studies clarify theory
• Very readable writing style and user-friendly format with checklists of key issues
• Opportunities for reflective learning

Section 1. Looking for the evidence.
Evidence-based practice.
Types of evidence.
Systematic reviews.
Information sourcing.
Section 2. Applying the evidence.
Clinical effectiveness.
Development of practice.
Audit.
Section 3 Reflecting upon the evidence.
Personal change.
Organisational change.
Ethical change.

Subject Areas: Nursing [MQC], Medicine: general issues [MB]