Table of Contents

Criteria for the implementation of research evidence in policy and practice.Sources of information on clinical effectiveness and methods of dissemination.Closing the gap between research and practice.Implementing research findings into practice: beyond the information deficit model.Roles for lay people in the implementation of health care.Implementing research findings in clinical practice.Roles for lay people in the implementation of health care research.Using research findings in clinical practice.Evidence-based policy making.Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice.Decision support.Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings.Implementing research findings in developing countries.Opportunity costs on trial: new options for encouraging implementation of results frm economic eval.Changing clinical practice in the light of evidence

About the Author

Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine LSHTM· Department of Social and Environmental Health Research.