Download or read book Evidence Based and Cost Effective Medicine for the Uninitiated written by David B. Cooper and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of home detoxification enables health care workers to avoid episodes of in-patient care, with its inherent high costs and secondary problems of label attachment and possible stigmatization. Patients, their carers (professional, voluntary and domestic), families and friends all involved in this 'at-home' process, thereby leading to empowerment and increased compliance. This book provides practical advice and guidance. If all the procedures here are followed, the care worker of whatever discipline is unlikely to encounter major difficulties. "Alcohol Home Detoxification and Assessment" provides the kind of model increasingly required for the move towards community care of people with a whole range of conditions, and will enable professionals to organize the process with confidence.
Download or read book Evidence based and Cost effective Medicine for the Uninitiated written by Tony Lockett and published by Radcliffe Pub. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two predominant forms of decision-making frameworks currently being applied in the present health care environment. These are evidence-based medicine (EBM) and cost-effectiveness based medical decision-making (CEM). EBM seeks to maximize benefit to an individual patient, or at least minimize the harm caused by medical treatment. In contrast, CEM seeks to examine the relative values in monetary terms, of interventions and to use this information to provide maximum benefit to a population under conditions where resources are scarce. Both of these techniques have tendencies to produce positivism-based decision-making, which has a technocratic bias. EBM and CEM are also in conflict. The application of EBM may increase the costs of medical practice. Therefore, a choice has to be made about which system af decision-making to apply. Both cost-effectiveness analysis and evidence will not solve the problems of rationing and resource allocation, as in themselves they may exacerbate the problem. Instead it is requisite that rationing is determined by knowing when to apply evidene-based rules and when to apply cost-based rules. If the allocation of resources is to consider individuals' benefit in health care, then some expansions of the concepts of both cost and benefit is required. However the largest task is to establish the purpose of health care systems.
Download or read book Health Status Measurement written by Crispin Jenkinson and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the terminology used in the growing field of subjective health status measurement as well as the issues to be considered when using this form of assessment.
Download or read book Dictionary of Evidence based Medicine written by Alain Wan Po Li and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on terminology used in biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, philosophy, ethics, logic and the social sciences.
Download or read book Evidence Based Behavioral Health Practices for Older Adults written by Sue E. Levkoff, ScD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book Evidence Based Practice for Occupational Therapists written by M. Clare Taylor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS Evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the driving forces in current healthcare practice. Occupational therapists recognise the need for research and for an evidence-based approach to interventions, but can need guidance on how to do this. This book aims to make evidence-based practice accessible and relevant to occupational therapists using examples from therapy practice. It will provide them with the skills to search for and access the required evidence to underpin or question practice. Publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 signaled the receptiveness of the occupational therapy community toward evidence-based practice. This second edition, as well as providing practical information on EBP, also addresses how it has evolved within the culture of occupational therapy. The author considers the definition of evidence-based occupational therapy, the impact of research governance, and social care influences on suitable evidence. Implementation issues are covered in greater depth, including change management and practice guidelines. Three new chapters have been added on evidence from other sources; carrying out a review of the evidence and developing and using guidelines for practice.
Download or read book The Business Side of Learning Design and Technologies written by Shahron Williams van Rooij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Side of Learning Design and Technologies provides a ready reference with actionable tools and techniques for recognizing the impact of learning design/technology decisions at the project, business unit, and organizational levels. Written for early- and mid-career learning designers and developers as well as students and researchers in instructional/learning design and technology programs, this volume focuses on the business issues underlying the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of learning opportunities. Using scholarly and practitioner research, interviews with Learning and Development thought leaders, and the author’s own experience, readers will learn how to speak the language of business to demonstrate the value of learning design and technologies.
Download or read book Comparative and Cross cultural Health Research written by John Øvretveit and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes concepts and methods for comparing health, treatments, organisations, health systems, policies, health reforms and interventions to health organisations. Comparative research - and especially cross-cultural research - is more demanding of conceptual and practical research skills than many other types of research. Greater care is needed in sampling, in ensuring valid and reliable data collection, and in regocnising and assessing confounders. This text aims to give an introduction to comparative health research for both researchers and users of research, such as managers, policy-makers and practitioners.
Download or read book Research Methods in Primary Care written by Yvonne Carter and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to introduce a basic range of research skills relevant to primary care.
Download or read book The Economics of Mental Health Care written by Ruth F.G Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. This original study of mental health care presents a conceptual approach to the nature of the industry’s multiple outputs. It pays special attention to the economic role of government, and also uses conventional economic theory to analyze the fact that the needs and wants of people with mental illnesses and their care-givers are frequently neglected.
Download or read book Dictionary of Health Economics written by Alan Earl-Slater and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, concise and easily accessible, this is the first health economics dictionary of its kind and is an essential reference tool for everyone involved, or interested in, healthcare. The modern terminology of health economics and relevant terms used by economists working in the fields of epidemiology, public health, decision management and policy studies are all clearly explained. Combined with hundreds of key terms, the skillful use of examples, figures, tables and a simple cross-referencing system between definitions, allows the often complex language of health economics to be demystified.
Download or read book Social Work Practice written by Eileen D. Gambrill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. Getting Oriented1. Social work: An introduction2. Clients and services3. Values, ethics, and obligationsPart II. Thinking about knowledge and how to get it4. Different views of knowledge5. Critical thinking: Values, knowledge, and skillsPart III. Thinking about problems and causes6. Competing views of problems and causes7. Taking advantage of research findings about behavior and how it is influenced by the environmentPart IV. A problem-solving practice model8. Problem solving and decision making: Integral to helping clients9. Evidence-based practice: A problem-solving process and philosophy10. Posing questions and searching for answers11. A bare-bones guide to critically appraising practice-related researchPart V. Getting started12. Contextual assessment13. Beginning: A procedural guide14. Engaging clientsPart VI. Relationship skills15. Interpersonal helping skills16. Handling challenging social situationsPart VII. Gathering and organizing information17. Where to look: Deciding how to gather needed information18. Observation: Learning to see19. Reviewing resources and obstacles20. Putting it all togetherPart VIII. Selecting plans and assessing progress21. Selecting and Implementing service plans22. Evaluating outcomes as integral to problem solving23. Planning for endingsPart IX. Intervention options24. Education and skill building25. Helping clients learn positive behavior change skills26. Working with groups and families27. Working with organizations and communitiesPart X. The long run28. Maintaining skills and staying happy in your workReferences Index.
Download or read book Organisational Behaviour in Health Care written by Annabelle Mark and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a variety of the best papers from an international research symposium on organisational behaviour in healthcare. It includes contributions from key names such as Sandra Dawson and Peter Spurgeon with a foreword by Rosemary Stewart. Also including chapters from Australia, Canada and Europe, it is consciously international in perspective and aims to relate the public sector agenda as a comparator for developments in the US.
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Download or read book Integrating Narrative Medicine and Evidence Based Medicine written by James P Meza and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific, evidence-based medicine is increasingly seen as fundamental to providing effective healthcare, but narrative-based medicine sheds light on social and interpersonal aspects of the practitioner-patient interaction which can also greatly affect healthcare outcomes. The philosophies underlying these two approaches seem to contrast, yet thos
