Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
Now $51.29
Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice.
Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.
Featuring a multi-discplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines, including:
- Clinical exercise physiology - Optometry
- Complementary and alternative medicine - Paramedicine
- Human movement (exercise science) - Pharmacy
- Medical imaging - Physiotherapy
- Medicine - Podiatry
- Nursing - Radiation Therapy
- Nutrition and dietetics - Speech pathology
- Medicine
- Occupational Therapy
Newer Edition Available
Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions - E-Book
-
Visit evolve.elsevier.com for your additional resources
Instructor resources:
- Image collection
- PowerPoint slides
- Short answer and tutorial questions
- Clinical Scenarios test bank
Student and instructor resources:
- Interactive quiz
- Worksheets
-
- Updated and additional content on shared decision making
- Additional case studies on community pharmacy and optometry
- Expanded and updated content on evidence implementation
- New content on diagnostic clinical prediction rules
- Revised and expanded evolve assets to support teaching and learning
-
Chapter 1 - Introduction to evidence-based practice
Chapter 2 - Information needs, asking questions, and some basics of research studies
Chapter 3 - Finding the evidence
Chapter 4 - Evidence about effects of interventions
Chapter 5 - Questions about the effects of interventions: examples of appraisals from different health professions
Chapter 6 - Evidence about diagnosis
Chapter 7 - Questions about diagnosis: examples of appraisals from different health professions
Chapter 8 - Evidence about prognosis
Chapter 9 - Questions about prognosis: examples of appraisals from different health professions
Chapter 10 - Understanding evidence from qualitative research
Chapter 11 - Understanding evidence from qualitative research: examples of assessment quality (critical appraisal) from different health professions
Chapter 12 - Appraising and interpreting systematic reviews
Chapter 13 - Clinical practice guidelines
Chapter 14 - Shared decision-making
Chapter 15 - Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice
Chapter 16 - Implementing evidence
Chapter 17 - Embedding evidence-based practice into routine clinical care
as described in our 