Evidence Based Medicine To Inform Practice Assessing Clinical Effectiveness And Economic Burden Of Medicine

What is evidence-based medicine? - Evidence-based medicine as a policy issue : Government interest ; The National Health Service response - Source of evidence : Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine ; Health Technology Assessment Programme ; NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination ; UK Clearing House for Information on the Assessment of Health outcomes ; UK Cochrane Centre/Cochrane Collaboration - Getting evidence into practice : the professional debate ; Teaching and learning EBM ; Audit and guidelines ; The role of libraries - The patient perspective

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Evidence-based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection will take a critical view of this concept and examine the economic implications of its imposition.

The need for evidence-based decisions that take account of botheffectiveness and economics is greater now than ever. Using casestudies and illustrative examples throughout the authors describehow the activities and outputs of evidence synthesis, systematicreview, economic analysis and decision-making interact within andacross different spheres of health and social policy and practice. Expanding on the first edition the book now covers approaches toevidence synthesis that combine economics and systematic reviewmethods in the applied fields of social welfare, education andcriminal justice, as well as health care. Written by economists andhealth services researchers closely involved in developingevidence-based policy and practice it showcases currentstate-of-the-art methodology and will be an invaluable read for allpolicy-makers and practitioners using evidence to inform decisions,analysts conducting research to support decisions and studentsdiscovering the need for evidence-based decisions to incorporateeconomic perspectives and evidence.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become a required element of clinical practice, but it is critical for the healthcare community to understand the ongoing controversy surrounding EBM. Seeking to address questions raised by critics, The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine challenges the over dependency of EBM on randomized controlled trials. This book also explores EBM methodology and its relationship with other approaches used in medicine.

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Nursing and Healthcare examinesthe Joanna Briggs Institute model for evidence-based practice whichrecognises research, theory and practice as sources of evidence andtakes a practical approach to developing, implementing andevaluating practice, based on 'evidence' in its broadestsense. Evidence-based Clinical Practice in Nursing and Healthcareaddresses the nature of evidence in clinical practice, generatingand synthesising evidence, and transferring and utilising evidencein clinical practice. It describes the development of practiceinformation sheets and clinical guidelines and provides practicalguidance on the implementation of evidence-based practice and itsevaluation using clinical audit.

Written for students and clinicians seeking a clear and simple model for putting evidence-based medicine into practice, it systematically covers the fundamentals: medial decision-making techniques; accessing medical information; and assessing the validity of medical information. Case examples of how to analyze the literature are also included.