Research Catalog

Title

Evidence-based healthcare and public health : how to make decisions about health services and public health / Muir Gray ; chapter 9 co-written by Sasha Shepperd ; editor, Erica Ison ; editorial assistant, Rosemary Lees.

Author

Gray, J. A. Muir (John Armstrong Muir)

Publication

Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gray, J. A. Muir (John Armstrong Muir).
• Ison, Erica.

Description

xxv, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Quality of Health Care
• Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration
• Decision Support Techniques
• Public Health
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Health services administration
• Evidence-based medicine

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Evidence-based healthcare / J.A. Muir Gray. 2nd. ed. 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue : the globalisation of healthcare problems and their solutions -- Evidence-based health services -- 'Doing the right things right' -- Making decisions about health services -- Finding good-quality evidence -- Appraising the quality of research -- Assessing the outcomes found -- Evidence-based health service management -- Evidence-based public health -- Developing the skills of individuals -- Evidence-based clinical practice -- Epilogue : evidence-based healthcare in the 21st century.

ISBN

• 9780443101236
• 044310123X

LCCN

2008002431

OCLC

• ocn191127330
• 191127330
• SCSB-8858496

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries