Evidence-based General Practice: a Critical Reader - Softcover

Ridsdale, Leone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070201611X ISBN 13: 9780702016110

Publisher: Bailliere Tindall, 1995

Synopsis

This book addresses the behavioural issues and problems which face general practitioners in their everyday working life. It includes topics like Consultation Time, Psychological Distress, Communication, Ethics and Innovation. As they are recurring and important themes in general practice, they also recur as topics and questions in the Royal College of General Practitioners membership examination. In each chapter, the author presents problems and asks questions which arise in clinical practice, and then reviews the literature that is available, but sometimes not easily accessible, to busy practitioners. Theories and evidence are weighed up, and readers are challenged to join in the process of critical enquiry and debate. The last three chapters describe how to appraise scientific papers and evaluate different sorts of evidence in a critical, constructive and practical way.

About this title

About the Author

Leone Ridsdale PhD, FRCGP trained as an economist, and became interested in health and education whilst she was a graduate student at LSE. Her interest in medical care increased and she decided to train as a doctor at McMaster University in Canada. In 1985 she became a Senior Lecturer at UMDS Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals where she was responsible for setting up a Master's Degreecourse for GPs. She has been a trainer, and an examiner for the Royal College of General Practitioner's membership examination. Her interests include critical reading, behavioural science and neurology as applied to general practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bailliere Tindall
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070201611X
• ISBN 13: 9780702016110
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164