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Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice

HAYNES, Brian
HAINES, Andrew
July 1998

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[Summary points:] The aim of evidence based practice is to integrate current best evidence from research with clinical policy and practice. Practitioners have difficulty finding, assessing, interpreting, and applying current best evidence. New evidence based services (such as electronic databases, systematic reviews, and journals that summarise evidence) make accessing current best evidence feasible and easy in clinical settings. Progress is slow in creating evidence based clinical policy and in ensuring that evidence and policy are applied at the right time

Disability statistics in the People's Republic of China

QIU, Zhupying
1998

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This paper presents the figures of disabled people in China. To a certain extent it is difficult to collect accurate figures of the total number of people with disabilities. The article presents how disability is classified in China in order to create a clear picture of the situation there. After analysing some surveys collected and conducted previously, a general picture of the total number of people with disabilities will be drawn

Measuring the immeasurable : planning, monitoring, and evaluation of networks

KARL, Marilee
Ed
1998

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Aimed at people interested in civil society and change through the experiences of networks and networking. The book aims to share experiences of networks and networking organisations in planning, monitoring, and evaluation; examine problems, challenges, practices and successes; provide lessons and guidelines to strengthen the participatory monitoring and evaluation in networks and networking organisations; and promote greater understanding and cooperation between funding agencies, networks and the networking organisations that they support

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