Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care : Multidisciplinary Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Broader Understanding of the Use of Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care -- 1 A Knowledge Utilization Perspective on Fine-Tuning Dissemination and Contextualizing Knowledge -- 2 A Sociological Perspective on the Transfer and Utilization of Social Scientific Knowledge for Policy-Making -- 3 A Political Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making -- 4 An Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making -- 5 An Innovation Diffusion Perspective on Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care -- 6 A Program Evaluation Perspective on Processes, Practices, and Decision-Makers -- 7 A Cognitive Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Medicine -- 8 An Informatics Perspective on Decision Support and the Process of Decision-Making in Health Care -- 9 An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on the Origins, Objectives, Limitations, and Future Developments of the Movement -- 10 A Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Perspective on Knowledge Utilization -- Postscript: Understanding Evidence-Based Decision-Making - or, Why Keyboards Are Irrational -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Careseek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge.

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