The bestselling guide to evidence-based medicine and healthcare
Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping readers to understand its central principles, critically evaluate published data, and implement the results in practical settings. Author Trisha Greenhalgh guides readers through each fundamental step of inqu...
Trade paperback. Two outstanding doctors who are also breast cancer survivors draw on their knowledge and experience to advise women with breast cancer and their loved ones through the variety of facets and outcomes at every stage, with tips on how to cope with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and beyond.
Inzwischen ist die evidenzbasierte Medizin (EbM) aus Forschung und Praxis nicht mehr wegzudenken. Entscheidende Grundlage für die Anwendung von EbM ist es, Veröffentlichungen richtig lesen zu können. Trisha Greenhalgh beschreibt, wie man medizinische Publikationen zu einer bestimmten klinischen Frage gezielt sucht, stellt die verschiedenen Typen medizinisch-wissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen vor, erläutert ihre Unterschiede und erklärt leic...
How can the needs and perspective of patients be incorporated in the design and redesign of health services? Health organizations are focusing more and more on patients - and requiring their employees to practise patient focused care.
This is a workbook for health professionals working with diabetic patients. It is based on the experiences of one group of health care workers in an inner city area. It illustrates how using individual patients' stories can inform and help health care workers to understand and manage their patients' difficulties better. In this way it has similar aims to the narrative based medicine books. It also provides the interactive learning element with...
This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented. This is an academic text, originally commissioned by the Department of Health from University College London and University of Surrey, using a variety of research methods. The results of the review are discussed in detail in separate chapters covering particular innovations and the relevant contexts. The book is inten...
Trish Greenhalgh is one of the international stars of general practice and a very clever thinker. This new book is a wonderful new resource for primary health care and general practice. Every general practice registrar should read this book and so should every general practice teacher and every primary care researcher." * Professor Michael Kidd, Head of the Department of General Practice, The University of Sydney and Immediate Past President o...
Edited by two leading general practitioners and with contributions from over 20 authors, this book covers a wide range of topics to do with narrative in medicine. It includes a wealth of real examples of patients' narratives and addresses theoretical and practical issues including the use of narrative as a therapeutic tool, teaching narrative to students, philosophical issues, narrative in legal and ethical decisions, narrative in nursing, and...
