Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction to research and evidence based practice -- Step 1: Pose a focused research question -- 2 How do you put together a good focused research question? -- Step 2: Search for the evidence -- 3 How do you search for evidence to answer that question? -- Step 3: Critically appraise the evidence -- 4 When you have found some evidence how do you know if it's any good? -- 5 Let's talk about the characteristics of a quantitative design - the randomised controlled trial -- 6 Some non-randomised quantitative designs - quasi experiments, cohort studies and case-control studies -- 7 What are effect measures for dichotomous outcomes? -- 8 What are effect measures for continuous outcomes? -- 9 How do you critically appraise quantitative evidence such as RCTs? -- 10 Let's talk about characteristics of some qualitative designs - phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory -- 11 How do you critically appraise qualitative evidence? -- Step 4: Making a decision to implement the evidence -- 12 Why we need systematic reviews and initiatives like the Cochrane Library -- 13 Clinical guidelines and implementation of EBP -- 14 Your role in all of this? -- Index.

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