Knowledge to action?
Subtitle: evidence based health care in context
By: edited by Sue Dopson and Louise Fitzgerald.
Contributors: Dopson, Sue.; Fitzgerald, Louise, 1945-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Evidence-based medicine -- Great Britain.
Description: "Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement change based on research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures." "The book draws on a large body of evidence acquired in the course of nearly fifty in-depth case studies, following attempts to introduce evidence-based practice in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study hospital and primary care settings, they are able to shed light on why some of these attempts succeeded where others faltered. By opening up the intricacies and complexities of change in the NHS, they reveal the limitations of the simplistic approaches to implementing research or introducing evidence-based health care. A unique synthesis of evidence, the book brings together data from 1,400 interviews with doctors, nurses, and managers, as well as detailed observations and documentary analysis." "Knowledge to Action? will be of interest to Academics, Researchers, and Advanced Students of Organizational Behaviour, Public and Health Management, and Evidence-Based Medicine; and also of particular interest to Practitioners, Clinicians, and Public Health Managers concerned with implementing change to clinical practice."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-212) and index.