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Subject(s)

• Evidence-based medicine [Browse]
• Medical care—Decision making [Browse]
• Decision making [Browse]

Related name

• Lemieux-Charles, Louise [Browse]
• Champagne, François [Browse]

Summary note

"This collection of original essays seeks to broaden our understanding of the link between the structure and nature of knowledge and evidence and their role in health care decision-making. The basic premise underlying current discussion on evidence-based decision-making, notably as applied at the clinical level, is that the use of scientific evidence and knowledge should lead to higher-quality decisions, to the implementation of higher-quality actions, and, consequently, to better outcomes." "This work fills that gap by integrating social science views on the use of knowledge and evidence in health care and by exploring some of the challenges and limits of the use of evidence in different health care contexts."--Jacket

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Towards a broader understanding of the use of knowledge and evidence in health care
• Knowledge utilization perspective on fine-tuning dissemination and contextualizing knowledge
• Sociological perspective on the transfer and utilization of social scientific knowledge for policy-making
• Political science perspective on evidence-based decision-making
• Organizational science perspective on information, knowledge, evidence, and organizational decision-making
• Innovation diffusion perspective on knowledge and evidence in health care
• Program evaluation perspective on processes, practices, and decision-makers
• Cognitive science perspective on evidence-based decision-making in medicine
• Informatics perspective on decision support and the process of decision-making in health care
• Evidence-based medicine perspective on the origins, objectives, limitations, and future developments of the movement
• Nursing and allied health sciences perspective on knowledge utilization
• Understanding evidence-based decision-making, or, why keyboards are irrational.

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ISBN

• 9780802089328 ((alk. paper))
• 0802089321 ((alk. paper))
• 9780802096364
• 0802096360

LCCN

2005274202

OCLC

55146987

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