Evidence-Based Healthcare: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions

by Muir Gray Kt C B E D Sc M D (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.20

  This is a textbook on evidence based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers. Recently the evidence based medicine movement has been one of the most important influences on medicine. It involves the basing of clinical decisions on the best available evidence from systematic research. This book explains how evidence based decision making can be applied to health policy and management decisions about groups of patients and populations, rather than decisions about the treatment of individuals. Its first edition was well reviewed and highly successful, and this new edition builds upon the success of the first.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  As the pressure on health services grows remorselessly, decisions about the use of scarce resources are becoming even more difficult to make. This book gives healthcare managers the facts, figures, skills and knowledge they need to make health care decisions based on research evidence. Features: * Explains how the evidence can be applied to health policy and management decisions for populations, rather than for individual patients * Places the emphasis on science rather than opinion or guesswork * Teaches the skills needed to make the correct decisions about resources * Is written specifically for healthcare managers