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Achieving evidence-based practice: a handbook for practitioners

Centre for Continuing Professional Development
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Key Words: evidence-based medicine

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This book addresses steps 4 and 5 of evidence-based practice, offering ideas on how to integrate best evidence into practice and subsequently evaluate and reflect on your performance.

In the chapter on types of evidence, Debra Humphries presents a range of research designs, helping the reader to understand how different research questions need different approaches to research. She reminds us that the well known hierarchy of research evidence is appropriate for positivistic research designs, such as randomised controlled trials, which helps to place the utility of quasi-experimental and qualitative evidence into context. Types of evidence are explained with useful examples for those who are new to research design. Similarly, Rumona Dickson presents a basic roadmap to systematic reviewing that could be easily understood by the beginner.

The chapter on information sourcing by Brice et al raises an important point about searching, describing how the searching and retrieval process is influenced . . . [Full text of this article]