Evidence into Practice

This is the first text to provide comprehensive coverage of the three areas integral to evidence-based practice - clinical expertise, understanding patient values and circumstances, and analyzing evidence from the literature! This integration is the heart of the optimal practitioner-patient relation [...]
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This is the first text to provide comprehensive coverage of the three areas integral to evidence-based practice - clinical expertise, understanding patient values and circumstances, and analyzing evidence from the literature! This integration is the heart of the optimal practitioner-patient relationship and the path to the very best patient care. Step by step, the authors show you how theory and practice come together with respect for patient values and circumstances to produce the best patient outcomes. A wealth of clinical examples and case scenarios make every concept clear. It emphasizes clinical reasoning, with a focus on the "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice" and its patient care management model of examination, decision-making, and intervention to illustrate the connections to other aspects of EBP. It provides an application of decision sciences to understanding the common mistakes made in clinical decision making. It discusses the role of the interview as the primary source of information about the patient, including values and circumstances.It considers issues related to access to the healthcare system, including financing and levels of care as they affect patient choice. It offers in-depth coverage on how to find, analyze, and use evidence from the literature for the student, novice, and advanced clinician. It extends this analysis to the many forms of synthesized literature that are especially useful in clinical practice. It presents clinical examples, bibliographic references, and contributors from many disciplines, including physical therapy, medicine, library science, and decision sciences. It includes appropriate models of patient care management, including disablement models, as well as models for clinical decision-making such as the Hypothesis Oriented Algorithm for Clinicians (HOAC) model, and models of expertise, patient communication, and literature analysis.