C Pope, N Mays, J Popay - Healthcare policy, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Research synthesis has an important role supporting the transfer of knowledge between researchers and healthcare decision-makers. But if our goal is to make knowledge more …
S Nutley, HTO Davies, N Tilley - 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The discussion of evidence-based policy and practice has continued apace since the last Public Money & Management issue on this theme in January 1999 (Davies et al., 1999). It …
N Mays, C Pope, J Popay - Journal of health services …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Policy-makers and managers have always used a wide range of sources of evidence in making decisions about policy and the organization of services. However, they are under …
M McKee, A Britton - Health Policy and Planning, 1997 - academic.oup.com
The dramatic increase in the volume of research based information means that effective policy makers must be able to conduct and interpret literature reviews. This article sets out …
P Six - Journal of integrated care, 2002 - emerald.com
Ministers are always calling for more evidence‐based interventions. Do they apply the same criterion to their own work of making policy? Perhaps surprisingly, policy making is not an …
TA Sheldon - Journal of health services research & policy, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence-based medicine (EBM), though still relatively new, is successful in challenging unjustified variations in clinical practice and helps to protect the public by shifting the centre …
YA Ozcan, P Smith - Health Care Management Science, 1998 - Springer
This editorial introduces the new journal and sets out some of the editors' principles. It notes the apparently haphazard approach towards the improvement in management practice in …
As the move toward an evidence-based approach to health care has gathered momentum over the past two decades, a broadening of its focus has occurred. Along with generating …
HTO Davies, SM Nutley - Public money and management, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Health care practitioners (especially doctors) have always given assurances that what they do is efficacious. But in the past 50 years justification of the effectiveness of health care …