Knowledge to Action?: Evidence-Based Health Care in Context
Knowledge to Action?: Evidence-Based Health Care in Context Books
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Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best do. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously trying to implement research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures.
Drawing on a large body of evidence bought in the course of near fifty in-depth case studies following attempts to initiate evidence-based do in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study sickbay and primary care settings, they are able to shed light on why some of these attempts succeeded where others faltered. By opening up the intricacies and complexities of exchange in the NHS, they reveal the limitations of the simplistic approaches to implementing research or introducing evidence-based health care.
A unique synthesis of evidence, the book brings together data from 1,400 interviews with doctors, nurses, and managers, as well as detailed observations and documentary analysis. The authors provide an analysis, rooted in a range of theoretical perspectives, that underlines the intimate links between organizational structures and cultures and the employment of knowledge, and draws conclusions which will be of significance for other areas of broadcast management. Their findings have implications for the employment of knowledge in situations where there is a professional tradition working within a politically sensitive blend of broadcast service, managerial accountability, and technical expertise.
A unique synthesis of evidence, the book brings together data from 1,400 interviews with doctors, nurses, and managers, as well as detailed observations and documentary analysis. The authors provide an analysis, rooted in a range of theoretical perspectives, that underlines the intimate links between organizational structures and cultures and the employment of knowledge, and draws conclusions which will be of significance for other areas of broadcast management. Their findings have implications for the employment of knowledge in situations where there is a professional tradition working within a politically sensitive blend of broadcast service, managerial accountability, and technical expertise.
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