Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Towards a Broader Understanding of the Use of Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care 1
5. 1. A Knowledge Utilization Perspective on Fine-Tuning Dissemination and Contextualizing Knowledge 18
6. 2. A Sociological Perspective on the Transfer and Utilization of Social Scientific Knowledge for Policy-Making 41
7. 3. A Political Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making 70
8. 4. An Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making 86
9. 5. An Innovation Diffusion Perspective on Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care 115
10. 6. A Program Evaluation Perspective on Processes, Practices, and Decision-Makers 139
11. 7. A Cognitive Science Perspective on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Medicine 172
12. 8. An Informatics Perspective on Decision Support and the Process of Decision-Making in Health Care 199
13. 9. An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on the Origins, Objectives, Limitations, and Future Developments of the Movement 227
14. 10. A Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Perspective on Knowledge Utilization 242
15. Postscript: Understanding Evidence-Based Decision-Making – or, Why Keyboards Are Irrational 281
16. Contributors 291
17. Index 297