Evidence-Based Health Care and Public Health: How to Make Decisions About Health Services and Public Health

Author: Muir Gray Kt CBE DSc MD
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: health, public, decisions, services, care, based, evidence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-11-03
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 044310123X
ISBN-13: 9780443101236

Book Description:

A guide to evidence-based decision making for healthcare, medical and nurse managers.

New edition of a highly praised and successful book in one of the hottest areas of medicine.
Covers the vital areas for healthcare managers - finding and appraising evidence and developing the capacity of individuals and organisations to use evidence.
Pressure on healthcare services is growing - this book will be indispensable for managers making difficult decisions about the allocation of scarce resources.
Exceptionally well written - highly praised by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal.

More on managerial decision making and managerial options in the face of financial pressure on resources.
More focus on how to get better outcomes - how to improve quality rather than just how to measure quality.
Updating throughout.

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