About the authors |
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Preface |
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Overall aim of the programme |
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Self-assessment of where you are now with clinical effectiveness and clinical governance |
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What are clinical effectiveness and evidence-based healthcare? |
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What is the evidence for evidence-based healthcare? |
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Why midwives need information |
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Are midwives ready for evidence-based healthcare? |
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Stage 1: Asking the right question |
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Questions about cost-effectiveness |
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Framing questions: some examples |
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Examples of questions you might pose as a midwife |
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Stage 2: Undertaking a literature search |
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The search strategy: think, search and appraise |
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Using the Cochrane Library |
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Using the Medline database |
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The hierarchy of evidence |
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Stage 3: Frame your own question and search for the evidence |
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Stage 4: Appraise the evidence |
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The meaning of different research methods and terms |
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Critical appraisal of a published paper or report of a study |
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Critical appraisal of a qualitative research paper |
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Critically appraise a published paper |
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Our review of Hannah M, Hannah W, Hewson S et al.(2000) |
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Stage 5: Apply the evidence |
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Diary of your progress in searching for evidence |
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Stage 6: What clinical governance means and how to put it into practice |
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Components of clinical governance |
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The challenges to delivering clinical governance |
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Enhancing your personal and professional development |
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How evidence-based care, clinical effectiveness and other components of clinical governance fit together: |
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the practitioner's or the unit's perspective |
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the primary care organisation's or trust's perspective |
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Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care |
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Stage 7: Focusing on your revalidation - where clinical governance fits |
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Moving from appraisal to revalidation |
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Where clinical governance fits with revalidation |
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Continuing professional development (CPD) |
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Differentiating appraisal and assessment |
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Preparing for appraisal and revalidation |
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Compiling an effective personal development plan (PDP) |
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How to identify your development and service needs |
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Providing evidence of your competence and performance |
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Evaluate your newly gained knowledge and skills in clinical effectiveness and clinical governance |
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Useful publications of evidence already available |
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139 | (2) |
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References |
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Index |
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