Research can seem difficult to get to grips with. However, at the heart of this new edition is the view that research is essentially a simple activity, the principles of which can be readily ...understood by students new to the subject.
Each chapter guides the reader to uncover the ‘mysteries’ of research, exposing each aspect in turn, while demonstrating how research in healthcare is a practical activity, orientated directly to patient care. Fully updated to refer to the latest sources and studies, the third edition includes:
a new chapter on systematic literature views;
a new chapter on research ethics;
a completely revised chapter on evidence-based practice which now focuses more tightly on the implementation of research and other forms of evidence.
This book is designed for all students of nursing and allied health professions at any level but who find themselves studying research for the first time. Research is illustrated through examples of activities familiar to students from their daily lives, which help build confidence in undertaking research and evidence-based practice.
Being intelligible to a listener means getting your message across and improving speech intelligibility is one of the most common goals for clients working with a speech-language pathologist (SLP). ...Improving Speech Intelligibility in Adults: Clinical Application of Evidence-Based Strategies is a professional resource for practicing SLPs working with adults with communication disorders, such as dysarthria, acquired apraxia of speech, and voice disorders.
This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines ...afresh how clinicians use knowledge.
Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the training of all health professionals. Yet despite its ‘gold-standard’ status, it is faltering because too much effort has gone into insisting on an idealised model of how clinicians ought to use the best evidence, while not enough has been done to understand why they so often don’t.
Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare is a groundbreaking attempt to redress that imbalance. Examining how clinicians actually develop and use clinical knowledge day-to-day, the authors conclude that they use ‘mindlines’– internalised, collectively reinforced, tacit guidelines. Mindlines embody the composite and flexible knowledge that clinicians need in practice. They are built up during training and continually updated from a wide range of formal and informal sources. Before new evidence becomes part of practitioners’ mindlines, it is transformed by their interactions with colleagues and patients via their communities of practice and networks of trusted colleagues.
To explore how mindlines work Gabbay and le May draw on a wide range of disciplines to analyse their detailed observations of clinical practice in the UK and the US. Their conclusions and provocative recommendations will be of value to all practitioners, health service managers, policymakers, researchers, educators and students involved in the promotion of evidence-based practice.
1. Introduction: evidence in practice; 2. From formal knowledge guided complexity; 3.Clinical thinking and knowledge in practice; 4. Growing mindlines: laying the foundations; 5. Growing mindlines: cultivating contextual adroitness; 6. The place of storytelling in knowledge sharing; 7. A community of clinical practice?; 8. Co-constructing collective mindlines; 9. Co-constructing clinical reality; 10; Conclusions and implications
John Gabbay is Emeritus Professor at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development, University of Southampton, UK.
Andrée le May is Professor of Nursing at the University of Southampton, UK.
'This book is one of the most important publications about clinical practice in general and evidence based medicine in particular to appear in the last 20 years. Those who consider themselves to be working at the ‘cutting edge’ in these fields should make time to read it.' - Trisha Greenhalgh, University College London, UK
'This amazing book, which will revolutionize the way we think about clinical practice as well as the way we teach practitioners, should push the whole field forward by a quantum leap. Practice-based Evidence will come as a big relief to thinking practitioners who have felt oppressed by the evidence-based practice movement, and should be on the 'must read' list for anyone involved with meeting continuing competency requirements in both nursing and medicine.' - Lesley Degner, University of Manitoba, Canada
'This is a fascinating analysis that rings true with my own clinical experience. It will doubtless be eagerly devoured by those who study clinical decision-making but anyone concerned with clinical practice and policy, however busy, will gain by reading it. This valuable book addresses issues that are of crucial importance and from which we all need to learn.' - Joel Howell, University of Michigan, USA
'The actors who speak at the beginning of each chapter remind me of people I have met and worked with all through my career; they describe my behaviours at various stages of my life as a clinician. So, I felt very comfortable reading this book, which is filled with wisdom distilled from many disciplines and raises major issues about professional development. It will have a significant and lasting impact on how I view a number of concepts. Very few books have such a powerful influence.' - John Balla , Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford, UK and University of Melbourne, Australia
'This important book makes a major contribution to our understanding about the everyday problems of making sense of clinical knowledge in practice. Grounded in real world research that gives a unique insight into the real world of health professionals, John Gabbay and Andrée le May will not only inform the implementation of evidence-based practice, but also help to shape future studies of this key problem of contemporary health care, which has never been more politically contentious' - Carl May, Newcastle University, UK
Literature reviews are undertaken by students, researchers, clinicians and educationalists - that is, almost all nurses.
Despite much excellent work, exploring the assumptions and practices that ...constitute searching for and reviewing literature has merit, and prompting those who undertake these activities to think critically about what it is that they are doing should be encouraged. Widely adopted approaches to structuring reviews (the "standard model") can detrimentally limit the scope or range of literature that is accessed and appraised. It is further proposed that a lack of professional ambition or confidence invests aspects of the way some nurses engage with the sources that are available to them. Across the book, parochialism is challenged. The crucial roles that values and judgement play in reviews are highlighted. It is argued that humanities and arts texts deserve, potentially, a bigger or more assured place in reviews undertaken by nurses. Difficulties in appraising quantitative and qualitative research reports are identified, and benefits linked with taking a contemplative line through the review process are considered.
This book contributes to debates around evidence-based practice and literature reviews more generally. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in professional issues, research, and the philosophy and sociology of nursing.
"Identifying Perinatal Depression and Anxiety brings together the very latest research and clinical practice on this topic from around the world in one valuable resource. Examines current screening ...and management models, particularly those in Australia, England and Wales, Scotland, and the United States. Discusses the evidence, accuracy, and limitations of screening methods in the context of challenges, policy issues, and questions that require further research. Up to date practical guidance of how to screen, assess, diagnose and manage is provided. Considers the importance of screening processes that involve infants and fathers, additional training for health professionals, pathways to care following screening, and the economics of screening. Offers forward-thinking synthesis and analysis of the current state of the field by leading international experts, with the goal of sketching out areas in need of future research"--Provided by publisher.
This paper examines the unregulated approach to video evidence in U.S. courts. It provides an overview of three key factors that contribute to the inconsistent treatment of video as evidence: the ...shifting and uncertain categories under which video is admitted as evidence, the discrepancies in how video is perceived and interpreted, and the lack of widespread legal training in visual literacy. Together, these factors exacerbate the challenges that visual perception and interpretation pose in court, as illustrated by the analysis of the varied use of video by district and appellate courts at summary judgment in McDowell v. Sherrer, a case involving an Eight Amendment excessive force claim. By discussing these challenges, the paper argues for the necessity of archival legal standards, which could facilitate research into uniform guidance and applications for treating video as evidence. Otherwise, civil rights and human rights may be disparately recognized and upheld.
Evidence-Based Clinical Supervisioncritiques and summarises the best available psychological evidence relating to clinical supervision, clarifying the key principles, setting out the related practice ...guidelines and specifying the research and practice implications.A best-practice guide to clinical supervision, an approach used across psychotherapy and health services where professionals meet regularly with each other to discuss casework and training issues Summarises the best available clinical evidence relating to clinical supervision, and relates this information to key principles with a strong applied focus, drawing out practice guidelines and implications Aims to motivate health professionals to practice supervision with greater enthusiasm and proficiency Represents the culmination of two years' intensive research on supervision and twenty years of involvement in supporting and developing supervisors
Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the same degree of scientific grounding as those for medication, but that is not always the case. The IOM ...recommends that the FDA adopt a consistent scientific framework for biomarker evaluation in order to achieve a rigorous and transparent process.
Developing and Delivering Practice-based Evidencepromotes a range of methodological approaches to complement traditional evidence-based practice in the field of psychological therapies. Represents ...the first UK text to offer a coherent and programmatic approach to expand traditional trials methodology in the field of psychological therapies by utilizing evidence gained by practitioners Includes contributions from UK and US scientist-practitioners who are leaders in their fieldFeatures content appropriate for practitioners working alone, in groups, and for psychological therapy services
Evidence-based psychotherapies have been shown to be efficacious and cost-effective for a wide range of psychiatric conditions. Psychiatric disorders are prevalent worldwide and associated with high ...rates of disease burden, as well as elevated rates of co-occurrence with medical disorders, which has led to an increased focus on the need for evidence-based psychotherapies. This chapter focuses on the current state of evidence-based psychotherapy. The strengths and challenges of evidence-based psychotherapy are discussed, as well as misperceptions regarding the approach that may discourage and limit its use. In addition, we review various factors associated with the optimal implementation and application of evidence-based psychotherapies. Lastly, suggestions are provided on ways to advance the evidence-based psychotherapy movement to become truly integrated into practice.