Knowledge for health care practice : a guide to using research evidence / Sarah Jo Brown.

Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, [1999], ©1999.

xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical knowledge -- Science: a dependable knowledge source -- Getting started -- Shaping the clinical question -- Searching for studies / Fred Pond -- Reading research reports -- Broad issues in the appraisal of findings -- Appraising findings from single original studies -- Appraising collective evidence -- Appraising the evidence from state-of-the-science summaries -- Making a change and evaluating its impact -- Committing to research-based practice.