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Evidence-Based Nursing A Guide to Clinical Practice

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ISBN-10: 0323025919

ISBN-13: 9780323025911

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alba DiCenso, Gordon Guyatt, Donna Ciliska, Gordon Guyatt

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This guide is written in response to numerous requests by nurse practitioners and other graduate faculty for a nursing literature resource. The guide explains how to interpret and apply evidence from health care literature to improve nursing practice.
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Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 1/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.826

Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, OntarioDrummond Rennie, MD JAMA, Chicago, IL Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CAMaureen O. Meade, MD, FRCPC, MSc Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, OntarioDeborah J. Cook, MD, MSc Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario

The Basics: Using the Nursing Literature
Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing
Finding the Evidence
Health Care Interventions and Harm: An Introduction
Health Care Interventions
Harm
Diagnosis
Prognosis
Qualitative Research
Summarizing the Evidence Through Systematic Reviews
Moving from Evidence to Action Using Clinical Practice Guidelines
Changing Nursing Practice in an Organization
Beyond the Basics: Using and Teaching the Principles of Evidence-Based Nursing
Health Care Interventions
Quality of Life
Surrogate Outcomes
Surprising Results of Randomized Controlled Trials
he Principle of Intention-to-Treat
When to Believe a Subgroup Analysis
Health Services Research
Health Services Interventions
Economic Evaluation
Computer Decision Support Systems
Diagnosis
Clinical Manifestations of Disease
Differential Diagnosis
Clinical Prediction Rules
Summarizing the Evidence Through Systematic Reviews
Publication Bias
Evaluating Differences in Study Results
Fixed -Effects and Random-Effects Models
Understanding the Results
Bias and Random Error
Measures of Association
HypothesisTesting
Confidence Intervals
Measuring Agreement Beyond Chance
Regression and Correlation
Moving from Evidence to Action
Number Needed to Treat
Applying Results to Individual Patients
Incorporating Patient Values
Interpreting
Levels of Evidence and Grades of Health Care Recommendations
Recommendations about Screening
Appendix
Glossary
Index CD-ROM Installation Instructions