Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services

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Oxford University Press, Jan 15, 2004 - Social Science - 1080 pages
The Evidence-Based Practice Manual was developed as an all-inclusive and comprehensive practical desktop resource. It includes 104 original chapters, each specially written by the most prominent and experienced medical, public health, psychology, social work, criminal justice, and public policy practitioners, researchers, and professors in the United States and Canada. This book is specifically designed with practitioners in mind, providing at-a-glance overviews and direct application chapters. This is the only interdisciplinary volume available for locating and applying evidence-based assessment measures, treatment plans, and interventions. Particular attention has been given to providing practice guidelines and exemplars of evidence-based practice and practice-based research. The Evidence-Based Practice Manual emphasizes and summarizes key elements, issues, concepts, and how-to approaches in the development and application of evidence-based practice. Discussions include program evaluation, quality and operational improvement strategies, research grant applications, validating measurement tools, and utilizing statistical procedures. Concise summaries of the substantive evidence gained from methodologically rigorous quantitative and qualitative research provide make this is an accessible resource for a broad range of practitioners facing the mandate of evidence-based practice in the health and human services.
 

Contents

RESEARCH ETHICS AND STEPBYSTEP RESEARCH GRANT GUIDELINES
113
EVIDENCEBASED PRACTICE DIAGNOSIS INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOME RESEARCH
191
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH
357
CONCEPTUALIZATION OPERATIONALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT
421
ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND MEASURES
461
PROGRAM EVALUATION STRATEGIES
583
PRACTICEBASED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH EXEMPLARS
685
PRACTICE BASED QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH EXEMPLARS
747
ESTABLISHING MONITORING AND MAINTAINING QUALITY AND OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
865
EPILOGUE
947
Bridging the Gap Between the Present and the Future
949
Internet Resources on EvidenceBased Practice and Research in Health Care and Human Services
961
Glossary
971
Index of Names
1009
Subject Index
1019
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