Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Francois Champagne (editor); Louise Lemieux-Charles (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Towards a Broader Understanding of the Use of Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
1. A Knowledge Utilization Perspective on Fine-Tuning Dissemination and Contextualizing Knowledge
2. A Sociological Perspective on the Transfer and Utilization of Social Scientific Knowledge for Policy-Making
3. A Political Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making
4. An Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making
5. An Innovation Diffusion Perspective on Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
6. A Program Evaluation Perspective on Processes, Practices, and Decision-Makers
7. A Cognitive Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Medicine
8. An Informatics Perspective on Decision Support and the Process of Decision-Making in Health Care
9. An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on the Origins, Objectives, Limitations, and Future Developments of the Movement
10. A Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Perspective on Knowledge Utilization
Postscript: Understanding Evidence-Based Decision-Making – or, Why Keyboards Are Irrational
Contributors
Index