Practice-based evidence for healthcare : clinical mindlines / John Gabbay and Andree Le May.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gabbay, J. (John), author.

Contributor:

Le May, Andrée.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence-based medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions. Firmly rooted in real practice while drawing lucidly on a great breadth of theoretical frameworks, it examines afresh how clinicians use knowledge. Evidence-based practice has recently become a key part of the training of all health professionals. Yet despite its 'gold-standard' status, it is faltering because too much effort has gone into insisting on an idealised model of how clinicians ought to use the best evidence, while not enough has been done to understand why they so often don't. <E

Contents:

Introduction : evidence in practice

From formal knowledge to guided complexity

Clinical thinking and knowledge in practice

Growing mindlines : laying the foundations

Growing mindlines : cultivating contextual adroitness

The place of storytelling in knowledge sharing

A community of clinical practice?

Co-constructing collective mindlines

Co-constructing clinical reality

Conclusions and implications.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-88837-3

1-136-88838-1

1-283-04371-8

9786613043719

0-203-83997-8

9780203839973

OCLC:

704275003