TY - JOUR T1 - Using Evidence in Health and Social Care JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 71 LP - 71 DO - 10.1136/ebm.6.3.71 VL - 6 IS - 3 AU - Howard Abrams Y1 - 2001/05/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/6/3/71.abstract N2 - The aim of Using Evidence in Health and Social Care is to encourage healthcare practitioners to ask 2 questions: what counts as evidence, and is this research true for me, in my setting? The book's self declared target audience is practitioners in health and social care “who want to read research and apply it in practice and not for people who want to do research themselves.”This book, like any overview of a large subject, is likely to please some of the people some of the time and leave everyone just a little dissatisfied. Although it claims to be aimed at the broadly defined “practitioner,” it seems better suited to students of the health oriented social sciences and … ER -