Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care : Multidisciplinary Perspectives /

At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Champagne, Francois, Lemieux-Charles, Louise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Towards a Broader Understanding of the Use of Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
  • 1. A Knowledge Utilization Perspective on Fine-Tuning Dissemination and Contextualizing Knowledge
  • 2. A Sociological Perspective on the Transfer and Utilization of Social Scientific Knowledge for Policy-Making
  • 3. A Political Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making
  • 4. An Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making
  • 5. An Innovation Diffusion Perspective on Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
  • 6. A Program Evaluation Perspective on Processes, Practices, and Decision-Makers
  • 7. A Cognitive Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Medicine
  • 8. An Informatics Perspective on Decision Support and the Process of Decision-Making in Health Care
  • 9. An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on the Origins, Objectives, Limitations, and Future Developments of the Movement
  • 10. A Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Perspective on Knowledge Utilization
  • Postscript: Understanding Evidence-Based Decision-Making
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  • Contributors
  • Index