Using knowledge and evidence in health care : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Louise Lemieux-Charles and François Champagne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : towards a broader understanding of the use of knowledge and evidence in health care / Francois Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Wendy McGuire -- 1. A knowledge utilization perspective on fine-tuning dissemination and contextualizing knowledge/ Jean-Louis Denis, Pascale Lehoux, Francois Champagne -- 2. A sociological perspective on the transfer and utilization of social scientific knowledge for policy-making / Harley D. Dickinson -- 3. A political science perspective on evidence-based decision-making / John N. Lavis -- 4. An organizational science perspective on information, knowledge, evidence, and organizational decision-making / G. Ross Baker, Liane Ginsburg, Ann Langley -- 5. An innovation diffusion perspective on knowledge and evidence in health care/ Louise Lemieux-Charles, Jan Barnsley -- 6. A program evaluation perspective on processes, practices, and decision-makers / Francois Champagne, Andre-Pierre Contandriopoulos, Anais Tanon -- 7. A cognitive science perspective on evidence-based decision-making in medicine / Lambert Farand, Jose Arocha -- 8. An informatics perspective on decision support and the process of decision-making in health care / Andrew Grant, Andre Kushniruk, Alain Villeneuve, Nicole Bolduc, Andriy Moshyk -- 9. An evidence-based medicine perspective on the origins, objectives, limitations, and future developments of the movement / R. Brian Haynes -- 10. A nursing and allied health sciences perspective on knowledge utilization / Carole A. Estabrooks, Shannon Scott-Findlay, Connie Winther -- Postscript : understanding evidence-based decision-making -- or, why keyboards are irrational / Jonathan Lomas.

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The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge.

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