Getting Research Findings into Practice

Thoroughly updated and revised, the new edition of this accessible guide aims to outline why there is a gap between research findings and what actually happens in clinical practice. It covers a number of topics including the sources of information on clinical effectiveness and methods of information, how to close the gap between research and pratice, potential roles for lay people, the role of decision support, barriers to the use of evidence in clinical practice, the role of decision analysis, implementing research findings in developing countries and how to encourage the implementation of results from economic evaluation.

Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine LSHTM· Department of Social and Environmental Health Research.

Criteria for the implementation of research evidence in policy and practice
Sources of information on clinical effectiveness and methods of dissemination
Closing the gap between research and practice
Implementing research findings into practice: beyond the information deficit model
Roles for lay people in the implementation of health care
Implementing research findings in clinical practice
Roles for lay people in the implementation of health care research
Using research findings in clinical practice
Evidence-based policy making
Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice
Decision support
Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings
Implementing research findings in developing countries
Opportunity costs on trial: new options for encouraging implementation of results frm economic eval
Changing clinical practice in the light of evidence
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