Evidence-Based Health Care and Public Health, 3rd Edition - How to Make Decisions About Health Services and Public Health
By Muir Gray, Kt, CBE, DSc, MD
448 pages
Trim size 9 1/5 X 6 1/8 in
Copyright 2009
Description
A guide to evidence-based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.
Key Features
New edition of a highly praised and successful book in one of the hottest areas of medicine.
Covers the vital areas for healthcare managers - finding and appraising evidence and developing the capacity of individuals and organisations to use evidence.
Pressure on healthcare services is growing - this book will be indispensable for managers making difficult decisions about the allocation of scarce resources.
Exceptionally well written - highly praised by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal.
New to this Edition
More on managerial decision making and managerial options in the face of financial pressure on resources.
More focus on how to get better outcomes - how to improve quality rather than just how to measure quality.
Updating throughout.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Prologue: The globalisation of healthcare problems and their solutions. Evidence-Based healthcare. Doing the right things right. Making decisions about health services. Searching for evidence. Appraising the quality of research. Assessing the outcomes found. The evidence-based organisation. Evidence-based public health. Developing the evidence management skills of individuals. The evidence-based consultation. Epilogue: Evidence-based healthcare in the post-modern era.