The Evidence-Based Practitioner: Applying Research to Meet Client Needs - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Put the evidence to work for your clients. Become an effective evidence-based practitioner.
Master the knowledge and clinical decision-making skills you need to provide the very best care for your clients…based on the evidence. Step by step, you’ll learn how to find, read, understand, critique, and apply research evidence in practice.

Five Stars!Great Book!“This is an exceptional book for not only OT students but other students in other health profession disciplines as well!”―Online Reviewer

• Updated! Current evidence and the policies and practices of occupational therapy today

• Expanded! Statistics coverage in three chapters: Descriptive Statistics: What They Tell You and How to Apply Them in Practice, Inferential Statistics: Tests of Difference, and Inferential Statistics for Relationship Questions

• New & Expanded! Qualitative research coverage in two chapters: Qualitative Designs: Exploring the Lived Experience and a new chapter, Trustworthiness of Qualitative Studies
• New! Introduction of the critically appraised paper (CAP) as a concept with a new feature that walks students through completing one

• Guiding principle of ‘Consuming vs. Conducting’ research
• How to write a research question that addresses a relevant practice problem and then how to find, read, and apply evidence to address the question
• Explanations of the different types of research and the methods and measurements used in each type, including their advantages and disadvantages.
• ‘From the Evidence,” excerpts with real data, abstracts, figures and tables from published research and coverage of how to decipher their meaning and apply them in practice
• “Evidence in the Real World,” personal narratives from health professionals who demonstrate using evidence in their practice
• “Understanding Statistics” boxes
• Worktext format with “Exercises” that encourage students to apply new concepts in the moment.
• “Review Questions” at the end of each chapter
• Answers to questions in the worktext at the end of each chapter

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