Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
What is the evidence? Why do you need it? How do you evaluate it? How do you use it to make decisions?
Put the evidence to work for your patients.
Master the knowledge and clinical decision-making skills you need to provide the very best care for your clients...based on the evidence.
Step by step, you'll learn how to find and evaluate the existing research and determine whether there is sufficient clinical evidence to support a specific treatment and whether it should be recommended or used to address a client's need. A wealth of examples drawn from the literature illustrates its role in everyday practice.
An access code inside new printed texts unlocks your student-focused questions that guide and reinforce learning.
Synopsis
Demonstrates how to formulate a question clinically relevant to a client, and the five-step process that can be used to answer it. Explains the different types of research and the different methods and measurements that are used to evaluate each type. Addresses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of research and explains why in "The Pros and Cons" side bars. Features "Connections" sidebars that demonstrates the interrelationships between material in the current chapter and key concepts addressed in other chapters. Uses figures, displays, and flow diagrams to make concepts easier to understand. Includes exercises at the end of each chapter that reinforce the examples or techniques discussed in that chapter. Provides a library of examples from the research literature and online links to help students make the connection between the issues being discussed and the role of research in the real world.
Synopsis
What is the evidence?
Why do you need it?
How do you evaluate it?
How do you use it to make decisions?
Put the evidence to work for your patients.
Master the knowledge and clinical decision-making skills you need to provide the very best care for your clients...based on the evidence.
Step by step, you'll learn how to find and evaluate the existing research and determine whether there is sufficient clinical evidence to support a specific treatment and whether it should be recommended or used to address a client's need. A wealth of examples drawn from the literature illustrates its role in everyday practice.
An access code inside new printed texts unlocks your student-focused questions that guide and reinforce learning.