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

Gray Kt CBE DSc MD, Muir

 
9780443062889: Evidence-Based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0443062889 ISBN 13: 9780443062889
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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    From the Back Cover

    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.

    About the Author

    Ciulla is Associate Professor and Chair Department of Medical Technology, College of Health and Nursing Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark.

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    Publisher
    Churchill Livingstone
    Publication date
    2001
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    0443062889
    ISBN 13 
    9780443062889
    Binding
    Paperback
    Edition number
    2
    Number of pages
    480