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

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 practice

Indispensable 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.

Addressing a significant deficiency in prehospital educational materials for EMS providers, this unique text focuses solely on the prehospital care of the elder patient with illness or injury. Geriatric patients are one of the most rapidly growing segments serviced by Prehospital Providers, and this comprehensive resource is an ideal tool to aid in the training and education of how to best treat these patients. Based on real-world cases, it provides material relevant to the work of all EMS personnel, and contains special sections on elder abuse, medical ethics, and living wills.

FEATURES:

• Case-based learning allows for real-world situation application.
• Systems approach integrates the unique physiology and pathology of the elder population with traditional EMS Protocols.
• Thorough coverage of medical emergencies including cardiovascular, pulmonary, abdominal, and gastrointestinal emergencies and more.
• Complete coverage of traumatic emergencies as well as pharmacology.
• Special topics like psychiatric and behavioral emergencies, abuse and neglect, and advance directives.