9. Implications of your research for clinical practice and identifying how findings could be put into practice
Evidence-Based Practice
- Evidence-Based Medicine; How to Practice and Teach EBM - David L. Sackett, Sharon
E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, William Rosenberg, R. Brian Haynes
This book is a very useful resource, and will be available in most university and hospital libraries. An accompanying CD provides clinical examples from
other disciplines, and information about resources to support evidence-based decisions.Look in particular at Chapter 1: 'Asking Answerable Clinical Questions',
and Chapter 2: 'How to Find Current Best Evidence'. Also
visit their website.
- University of Sheffield: the ScHARR Core Library for evidence-based practice is a virtual library of links to full text documents on all aspects of evidence-based practice
Research evidence
Commercial Aspects/By-products of Research
- Some advances in health and social care need to be developed commercially if they are to be made widely available, such as:
- Drugs,
- Medical devices and
- Successful commercial development often depends upon the protection of intellectual property or commercial confidentiality at critical points in the innovation process.
- The Policy Framework for the Management of Intellectual Property within the NHS issued by the Department of Health provides guidance on Intellectual Property.
