Description
Book SynopsisFeatures examples from the nursing literature and the addition of nursing issues such as qualitative research, with direct application for clinical practice. This guide, a nursing literature resource, is written for nurse practitioners and other graduate faculty.
Table of ContentsPART I - The Basics: Using the Nursing Literature Chapter 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Nursing Chapter 2: Finding the Evidence Chapter 3: Health Care Interventions and Harm: An Introduction Chapter 4: Health Care Interventions Chapter 5: Harm Chapter 6: Diagnosis Chapter 7: Prognosis Chapter 8: Qualitative Research Chapter 9: Summarizing the Evidence Through Systematic Reviews Chapter 10: Moving from Evidence to Action Using Clinical Practice Guidelines Chapter 11: Changing Nursing Practice in an Organization PART II - Beyond the Basics: Using and Teaching the Principles of Evidence-Based Nursing Unit I: Health Care Interventions Chapter 12: Quality of Life Chapter 13: Surrogate Outcomes Chapter 14: Surprising Results of Randomized Controlled Trials Chapter 15: The Principle of Intention-to-Treat Chapter 16: When to Believe a Subgroup Analysis Unit II: Health Services Research Chapter 17: Health Services Interventions Chapter 18: Economic Evaluation Chapter 19: Computer Decision Support Systems Unit III: Diagnosis Chapter 20: Clinical Manifestations of Disease Chapter 21: Differential Diagnosis Chapter 22: Clinical Prediction Rules Unit IV: Summarizing the Evidence Through Systematic Reviews Chapter 23: Publication Bias Chapter 24: Evaluating Differences in Study Results Chapter 25: Fixed-Effects and Random-Effects Models Unit V: Understanding the Results Chapter 26: Bias and Random Error Chapter 27: Measures of Association Chapter 28: HypothesisTesting Chapter 29: Confidence Intervals Chapter 30: Measuring Agreement Beyond Chance Chapter 31: Regression and Correlation Unit VI: Moving from Evidence to Action Chapter 32: Number Needed to Treat Chapter 33: Applying Results to Individual Patients Chapter 34: Incorporating Patient Values Chapter 35: Interpreting Levels of Evidence and Grades of Health Care Recommendations Chapter 36: Recommendations about Screening Appendix Glossary Index CD-ROM Installation Instructions
