328 Pages
by
CRC Press
328 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Here at last is a realistic and practical book that shows how evidence-based practice can be successfully applied in a primary care setting. The first section provides an introduction to the principles of evidence-based health care as they apply to primary care, and many other books on this subject stop right there. However, Section 3 practises what this first section preaches, by applying these... Read more
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1: GENERAL ISSUES IN EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE
1. Why Evidence-Based Health
2. A Guide to Reading
3. A Guide to Literature Sources
4. Clinical Practice Guidelines and Primary Care
5. Dissemination and Implentation Strategies
6. Using Evidence-Based Health in Learning and Development
7. Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice: A World Away from Evidence-Based Health
8. Evidence-Based Health, Patient Consent and Consumerism
9. Patient Involvement in Evidence-Based Health in Relation to Clinical Guidelines
SECTION 2: EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE COMMISSIONING AND PRESCRIBING
10. Fundamental Statistics for Evidence-Based Health in Primary Care
11. Evidence-Based Commissioning in Primary Care
12. Commissioning Stroke Services
13. Economics-Based Medical Practice: Using Evidence to Capture and Release Resources
14. Using Evidence from Economic Studies to Inform Service Development in General Medicine Practice
15. Prescribing Dilemmas: A Barrier to Evidence-Based Health
16. Role of Pharmacist in Evidence-Based Prescribing in Primary Care
17. Evidence in Practice: A Review of 18 Months of Evidence-Based General Practice
SECTION 3: EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE IN PRACTICE
18. Sore Throat
19. Sinusitis
20. Depression
21. Anxiety
22. Headache Diagnosis: When is a Migraine not a Middle Class Tension Headache?
23. Mastalgia
24. Prostate Screening: A Decision Analysis
25. Urinary Tract Infections: Test or Treat and How to Treat?
26. Helicobacter Pylori
27. The Trouble with Head Lice
28. Leg Ulcers and Fever in Children: Finding Evidence for Non-Medics
29. Heart Failure Guidelines
30. Low Back Pain
31. Asthma
32. Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
Epilogue
Appendix: Useful sources of evidence for primary care
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1: GENERAL ISSUES IN EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE
1. Why Evidence-Based Health
2. A Guide to Reading
3. A Guide to Literature Sources
4. Clinical Practice Guidelines and Primary Care
5. Dissemination and Implentation Strategies
6. Using Evidence-Based Health in Learning and Development
7. Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice: A World Away from Evidence-Based Health
8. Evidence-Based Health, Patient Consent and Consumerism
9. Patient Involvement in Evidence-Based Health in Relation to Clinical Guidelines
SECTION 2: EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE COMMISSIONING AND PRESCRIBING
10. Fundamental Statistics for Evidence-Based Health in Primary Care
11. Evidence-Based Commissioning in Primary Care
12. Commissioning Stroke Services
13. Economics-Based Medical Practice: Using Evidence to Capture and Release Resources
14. Using Evidence from Economic Studies to Inform Service Development in General Medicine Practice
15. Prescribing Dilemmas: A Barrier to Evidence-Based Health
16. Role of Pharmacist in Evidence-Based Prescribing in Primary Care
17. Evidence in Practice: A Review of 18 Months of Evidence-Based General Practice
SECTION 3: EVIDENCE-BASED PRIMARY CARE IN PRACTICE
18. Sore Throat
19. Sinusitis
20. Depression
21. Anxiety
22. Headache Diagnosis: When is a Migraine not a Middle Class Tension Headache?
23. Mastalgia
24. Prostate Screening: A Decision Analysis
25. Urinary Tract Infections: Test or Treat and How to Treat?
26. Helicobacter Pylori
27. The Trouble with Head Lice
28. Leg Ulcers and Fever in Children: Finding Evidence for Non-Medics
29. Heart Failure Guidelines
30. Low Back Pain
31. Asthma
32. Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
Epilogue
Appendix: Useful sources of evidence for primary care
Index
Biography
Mark Gabbay FRCGP Dip Psychotherapy DFFP
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
