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Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

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By Tammy Hoffmann, OAM, BOccThy (Hons 1), PhD, FOTARA, FAHMS, Sally Bennett, BOccThy (Hons), PhD, FOTARA and Christopher Del Mar, BSc, MA, MB BChir, MD, FRACGP, FAFPHM, FAHMS
Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice. Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make e ...view more

Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice.

Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.

Featuring a multi-discplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines, including:
- Clinical exercise physiology                                         - Optometry 
- Complementary and alternative medicine                     - Paramedicine 
- Human movement (exercise science)                           - Pharmacy 
- Medical imaging                                                         - Physiotherapy 
- Medicine                                                                   - Podiatry  
- Nursing                                                                     - Radiation Therapy
- Nutrition and dietetics                                                - Speech pathology
- Medicine                                                                 
- Occupational Therapy

 

ISBN :
9780729586078
Publication Date :
08-09-2017
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Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice.

Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible.

Featuring a multi-discplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines, including:
- Clinical exercise physiology                                         - Optometry 
- Complementary and alternative medicine                     - Paramedicine 
- Human movement (exercise science)                           - Pharmacy 
- Medical imaging                                                         - Physiotherapy 
- Medicine                                                                   - Podiatry  
- Nursing                                                                     - Radiation Therapy
- Nutrition and dietetics                                                - Speech pathology
- Medicine                                                                 
- Occupational Therapy

 


New to this edition
  • Updated and additional content on shared decision making
  • Additional case studies on community pharmacy and optometry
  • Expanded and updated content on evidence implementation
  • New content on diagnostic clinical prediction rules
  • Revised and expanded evolve assets to support teaching and learning

Key Features

Visit evolve.elsevier.com for your additional resources

Instructor resources:

  • Image collection
  • PowerPoint slides
  • Short answer and tutorial questions
  • Clinical Scenarios test bank

Student and instructor resources:

  • Interactive quiz
  • Worksheets

Author Information
By Tammy Hoffmann, OAM, BOccThy (Hons 1), PhD, FOTARA, FAHMS, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Evidence- Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia; Sally Bennett, BOccThy (Hons), PhD, FOTARA, Professor in Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Christopher Del Mar, BSc, MA, MB BChir, MD, FRACGP, FAFPHM, FAHMS, Professor of Public Health and academic General Practitioner, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia