Getting Research Findings into Practice, 2nd edition

✍ Scribed by Andy Haines, Andrew Haines, Anna Donald

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thoroughly updated and revised, the new edition of this accessible guide aims to outline why there is a gap between research findings and what actually happens in clinical practice. It covers a number of topics including the sources of information on clinical effectiveness and methods of information, how to close the gap between research and pratice, potential roles for lay people, the role of decision support, barriers to the use of evidence in clinical practice, the role of decision analysis, implementing research findings in developing countries and how to encourage the implementation of results from economic evaluation.

✦ Table of Contents

GETTING RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO PRACTICE......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 15
2 Criteria for the implementation of research evidence in policy and practice......Page 25
3 Sources of information on clinical effectiveness and methods of dissemination......Page 33
4 Changing provider behaviour: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote implementation of research findings by healthcare professionals......Page 43
5 Implementing research findings into practice: beyond the information deficit model......Page 82
6 Changing clinical practice in the light of the evidence: two contrasting stories from perinatology......Page 91
7 Roles for lay people in the implementation of healthcare research......Page 100
8 Implementing research findings in clinical practice......Page 109
9 Using evidence in clinical practice......Page 121
10 Barriers and bridges to evidence-based clinical practice......Page 129
11 Decision support systems and clinical innovation......Page 137
12 Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings......Page 152
13 Evidence-based policy making......Page 168
14 Implementing research findings in developing countries......Page 176
15 Opportunity costs on trial: new options for encouraging implementation of results from economic evaluations......Page 188
16 Surviving research implementation......Page 211
17 Using evidence in practice: setting priorities in Oxfordshire......Page 221
Index......Page 232