Evidence-Based Decision Making the skills necessary for life-long learning that are an important part of the ability to translate recent and relevant scientific evidence into practical applications.

Evidence-Based Decision Making presents content centered on the essential and fundamental skills of evidence-based decision making (EBDM) and provides succinct information in nine chapters, which are organized to help the reader learn the five essential skills of EBDM.

Include:

• formulating patient-centered questions
• searching for the appropriate evidence
• critically appraising the evidence
• applying the evidence to practice
• evaluating the process

Contents

1. Introduction to Evidence-Based Decision Making
2. PICO: Asking Good Questions
3. Research Design and Sources of Evidence
4. Levels of Evidence
5. Finding the Evidence: Using PICO to Guide the Search
6. Critical Appraisal of the Evidence
7. Evaluating Web-Based Health Information
8. Applying the Evidence to Practice
9. Evaluating the Process and Your Performance

Index

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