Joanna Briggs Institute.

Harm and adverse outcomes are two issues that a healthcare provider never wants to see happen to their patient. Harm and adverse outcomes are often the result of a treatment or therapy. This book will teach you to appraise the chance of harm or adverse outcomes so you will be able to provide better care and better outcomes to your patient.

This book seeks to demonstrate how action research can be used as a strategy to implement evidence into practice. Action research is a complex, reflexive and cyclical research methodology that cannot be reduced to a single method of inquiry, such as qualitative or quantitative methods. This book is intended as an introductory guide to action research in translational health science and includes a discussion on the philosophical underpinnings of action...

Health care, health research and improved health outcomes is of international interest and efforts to achieve better health for the global community has been high on the agenda for some years. Calls to improve strategies for international linkages, particularly between developed and developing or low-income economies, are not new, but there is currently no model for how to effectively achieve this. International collaboration presents attractive opportunities...

Critically appraising an article is much more than simply reading it. Appraisal is a technique that will improve the effectiveness of your ability to read research and determine if it is of adequate quality. This book will teach you how to critically appraise all types of research using questions geared to the particular type of research. You will then be able to determine if the research results are valid and can be applied in practice.

Practitioners and patients are called upon to make numerous health care decisions and, in doing so, need to weigh various types of information before taking action. This information comes from a myriad of sources, including the results of well-designed research; information related to the preferences of patients/clients and their relevant others; the practitioner's own experiences; and the nature and norms of the setting and culture in which the care...

The objective of a systematic review is to summarize the evidence on a specific clinical question using a transparent, a-priori protocol driven approach. This book provides an overview of the fundamental knowledge, principals and processes for the synthesis of quantitative data in reviews of the effectiveness of health care interventions. As such, it is designed for new reviewers, for students and as an introductory text for academics looking for...

Evidence for practice has increasingly influenced and contributed to the improvement of health care over the past few decades. While evidence for practice appears to be an integral component to decision making in health care practice, it has historically been dominated by the results of quantitative research. This book reviews the degree to which qualitative research, specifically qualitative systematic review, is valued within the domain of evidence-based...

In healthcare practice, healthcare providers are tasked with the challenge of bringing knowledge into practice to improve patient outcomes. This book is constructed to bring healthcare providers on the step-by-step journey through knowledge translation and how to bring evidence to healthcare practice.