Evidence-based decision making : a translational guide for dental professionals

This concise, hands-on text provides dental hygiene and dentistry students and practitioners with a method for making evidence-based decisions in practice. The book presents a step-by-step approach to mastering the five essential skills of evidence-based decision making%formulating patient-centered questions, searching for the appropriate evidence, critically appraising the evidence, applying the evidence to practice, and evaluating the process. Five Case Scenarios are used throughout the book in coordination with these skills and cover the broad areas of therapy/prevention, diagnosis, etiology/harm/causation, and prognosis. Each chapter has objectives, suggested activities, a quiz, critical thinking questions, and exercises. A companion Website includes online tutorials, additional cases, and links to additional resources. http://thepoint.lww.com/product/isbn/9780781765336

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Evidence-Based Decision Making
• Chapter 2 PICO: Asking Good Questions
• Skill 1 Converting Information Needs/Problems Into Clinical Questions So That They Can Be Answered
• Chapter 3 Research Design and Sources of Evidence
• Chapter 4 Levels of Evidence
• Chapter 5 Finding the Evidence: Using PICO to Guide the Search
• Skill 2 Conducting a Computerized Search with Maximum Efficiency for Finding the Best External Evidence with Which to Answer the Question
• Chapter 6 Critical Appraisal of the Evidence
• Skill 3 Critically Appraising the Evidence for its Validity and Usefulness
• Chapter 7 Evaluating Web-Based Health Information
• Chapter 8 Applying the Evidence to Practice
• Skill 4 Applying the Results of the Appraisal, or Evidence, in Clinical Practice
• Chapter 9 Evaluating the Process and Your Performance
• Skill 5 Evaluating the Process and Your Performance
• Appendix: Complete EBDM Worksheet
• Glossary
• Index