Practice-based Evidence for Healthcare

Despite its 'gold-standard' status, the EBP movement is faltering because, while much effort has gone into developing an idealised model of the way clinicians ought to use best evidence, there is less understanding of why they often don't. This book examines how clinicians do actually develop and use clinical knowledge.

John Gabbay is Emeritus Professor at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development, University of Southampton, UK. Andrée le May is Professor of Nursing at the University of Southampton, UK.

1. Introduction: evidence in practice; 2. From formal knowledge guided complexity; 3.Clinical thinking and knowledge in practice; 4. Growing mindlines: laying the foundations; 5. Growing mindlines: cultivating contextual adroitness; 6. The place of storytelling in knowledge sharing; 7. A community of clinical practice?; 8. Co-constructing collective mindlines; 9. Co-constructing clinical reality; 10; Conclusions and implications