Evidence-Based Practice A Critical Appraisal

by Trinder, Liz; Reynolds, Shirley

• ISBN13: 9780632050581
• ISBN10: 0632050586
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Evidence-based practice is an idea whose time has come. Few concepts can have achieved the status of unchallengeable common sense in such a short space of time, and across such a broad range of professional activity. As yet there have been few opportunities to take stock and reflect on the evidence for evidence-based practice, or the implications of its adoption. How effective or feasible is it in medicine? Is it really different? What are the consequences of not basing practice on research? Can evidence-based practice be used in non-clinical settings, where practitioners must deal with the complexity of multi-problem individuals, families and organizations? This text introduces the key concept of Evidence-Based Practice and accounts for its emergence and rapid expansion within and beyond medicine. It then goes on to describe how evidence-based practice is being translated in key areas (medicine, nursing, mental health education and social welfare) while critically appraising the strengths and weaknesses of evidence-based practice as it applies in a range of fields of professional practice.

Author Biography

Liz Trinder is the editor of Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical Appraisal, published by Wiley.

Shirley Reynolds is the editor of Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical Appraisal, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vi
Introduction: the Context of Evidence-Based Practice	1	(16)
Liz Trinder
The Anatomy of Evidence-Based Practice: Principles and Methods	17	(18)
Shirley Reynolds
Evidence-Based Practice in General Practice and Primary Care	35	(31)
Toby Lipman
Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health	66	(23)
John Geddes
Evidence-Based Public Health	89	(22)
J. A. Muir Gray
Evidence-Based Nursing Practice	111	(27)
Richard Blomfield
Sally Hardy
Evidence-Based Practice in Social Work and Probation	138	(25)
Liz Trinder
Evidence-Based Practice in Education and the Contribution of Educational Research	163	(21)
Martyn Hammersley
Evidence-Based Human Resource Management	184	(28)
Rob Briner
A Critical Appraisal of Evidence-Based Practice	212	(30)
Liz Trinder
Index	242