Evidence-based Practice across the Health Professions is a contemporary guide to modern evidence-based practice. Fully revised and updated, it continues to keep the focus on the knowledge and skills that clinicians and students really need to make evidence-based informed decisions. It provides a foundation to help you to better ponder what clinical questions to ask, know ways to efficiently find research that answers those questions, know how to decide whether the results of research are believable, important and applicable and use good evidence with patients to provide healthcare as responsibly, effectively and collaboratively as possible. Featuring a multi-discplinary approach with contributions from international and national leaders in evidence-based practice, this new edition now includes 15 health disciplines.

Introduction to evidence-based practice -- Information needs, asking questions and some basics of research studies -- Finding the evidence -- Evidence about effects of interventions -- Questions about the effects of interventions : examples of appraisals from different health professions -- Evidence about diagnosis -- Questions about diagnosis : examples of appraisals from different health professions -- Evidence about prognosis -- Questions about prognosis : examples of appraisals from different health professions -- Understanding evidence from qualatative research -- Understanding evidence from qualatative research: examples of assessment of quality (critical apprasial) from different health professions -- Appraising and intererpeting systematic reviews -- Clinical practice guidelines -- Shared decision making -- Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice -- Implementing evidence: closing research-practice gaps -- Embedding evidence-based practice into routine clinical care.