Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions - E-Book , 2nd Edition

Description

An expanded and revised new E-book edition of the respected evidence-based practice (EBP) foundation text.

Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions, 2nd Edition E-book provides health professions students with the basic knowledge and skills necessary to become evidence-based clinicians.

Years after its 2009 publication, Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions remains one of the few truly multidisciplinary evidence-based practice textbooks meeting the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in inter-professional courses.

Fully revised and expanded, the second edition of this key health textbook picks up where the first left off: demystifying the practice of finding and using evidence to inform decision-making across a range of professions and roles within the healthcare sector.

Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions, 2nd Edition E-book covers an additional three health disciplines - now totalling 12 - and features a new chapter on the important role of organisations in promoting evidence-based practice. Additional new content includes a greater emphasis on reflection, new clinical scenarios and additional examples of systematic reviews.

The authors’ focused, user-friendly approach helps students understand the importance and implications of evidence-based practice, and addresses the growing importance of collaborative practice and the reality of multidisciplinary health teams in the overall healthcare environment.

Key Features

• Worked examples of a wide range of case scenarios and appraised papers (some are discipline-specific and others are multidisciplinary).
  
• Designed to be used by students from a wide range of health professions, thus facilitating the student’s ability to understand the needs of multi-disciplinary health-care teams in a real-life setting.
  
• Includes a detailed chapter on implementing evidence into practice and other topics that are not typically addressed in other texts, such as a chapter about how to communicate evidence to clients and another that discusses the role of clinical reasoning in evidence-based practice.
  
• Summary points at the end of each chapter.
  
• Supported by an Evolve resource package that contains revision questions that utilize a range of question formats.

New to this Edition

• Three new health disciplines covered - human movement & exercise science, pharmacy and paramedicine - with new clinical scenarios.
  
• New chapter - Embedding evidence-based practice into routine clinical care.
  
• Elsevier’s Evolve  - an expanded suite of online assets to provide additional teaching and student resources.
  
• New examples of appraising and using systematic reviews of qualitative evidence (meta-synthesis).
  
• Nine new contributors including paramedicine, CAMS, qualitative EBP and nursing.
  
• New larger format and internal design.

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Tammy Hoffmann, BOccThy(Hons), PhD, BOccThy(Hons), PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia; Sally Bennett, BOccThy(Hons), PhD, BOccThy(Hons), PhD, Associate 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, Professor of Public Health and academic general practitioner, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia