Evidence into Practice: Integrating Judgement, Values, and Research - Softcover

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• Emphasizes clinical reasoning, with a focus on the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice and its patient care management model of examination, decision-making, and intervention to illustrate the connections to other aspects of EBP.
• Provides an application of decision sciences to understanding the common mistakes made in clinical decision making.
• Discusses the role of the interview as the primary source of information about the patient, including values and circumstances.
• Stresses the importance of communication as the primary means of learning about and affecting change in patient values as they influence their healthcare choices.
• Considers issues related to access to the healthcare system, including financing and levels of care as they affect patient choice.
• Offers in-depth coverage on how to find, analyze, and use evidence from the literature for the student, novice, and advanced clinician.
• Extends this analysis to the many forms of synthesized literature that are especially useful in clinical practice.
• Presents clinical examples, bibliographic references, and contributors from many disciplines, including physical therapy, medicine, library science, and decision sciences.
• Includes appropriate models of patient care management, including disablement models, as well as models for clinical decision-making such as the Hypothesis Oriented Algorithm for Clinicians (HOAC) model, and models of expertise, patient communication, and literature analysis.
• Features a wealth of clinical examples and case scenarios that illustrate how to apply theory to practice.
• Addresses typical clinical reasoning strategies used by clinicians, as well as an overview of biases and errors that can negatively affect reasoning outcomes.

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