Using knowledge and evidence in health care : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Louise Lemieux-Charles and François Champagne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Champagne, François.

Lemieux-Charles, Louise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence-based medicine.

Medical care--Decision making.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

vi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Towards a Broader Understanding of the Use of Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care / Francois Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Wendy McGuire 3

1 A Knowledge Utilization Perspective on Fine-Tuning Dissemination and Contextualizing Knowledge / Jean-Louis Denis, Pascale Lehoux, Francois Champagne 18

2 A Sociological Perspective on the Transfer and Utilization of Social Scientific Knowledge for Policy-Making / Harley D. Dickinson 41

3 A Political Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making / John N. Lavis 70

4 A n Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making / G. Ross Baker, Liane Ginsburg, Ann Langley 86

5 An Innovation Diffusion Perspective on Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care / Louise Lemieux-Charles, Jan Barnsley 115

6 A Program Evaluation Perspective on Processes, Practices, and Decision-Makers / Francois Champagne, Andre-Pierre Contandriopoulos, Anais Tanon 139

7 A Cognitive Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Medicine / Lambert Farand, Jose Arocha 172

8 An Informatics Perspective on Decision Support and the Process of Decision-Making in Health Care / Andrew Grant, Andre Kushniruk, Alain Villeneuve, Nicole Bolduc, Andriy Moshyk 199

9 An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on the Origins, Objectives, Limitations, and Future Developments of the Movement / R. Brian Haynes 227

10 A Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Perspective on Knowledge Utilization / Carole A. Estabrooks, Shannon Scott-Findlay, Connie Winther 242

Postscript: Understanding Evidence-Based Decision-Making - or, Why Keyboards Are Irrational / Jonathan Lomas 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802089321

OCLC:

55146987