Journal of Clinical Effectiveness: Volume 3 Issue 4

Clinical effectiveness: a multi‐disciplinary educational needs assessment in the West Midlands

Guy Houghton, Baron Mendes da Costa

The Evidence Supported Medicine Union (EMU) was formed in the West Midlands to introduce and develop the ideas of evidence‐based medicine into general and hospital practice. To…

Appraisal of clinical effectiveness — an ACE approach to promoting evidence‐based therapy

Barbara Richardson, Christina Jerosch‐Herold

This article reports the evaluation of two workshops to develop evidence‐based practice (EBP) in occupational therapy and physiotherapy. An innovative approach was taken in the…

Developing practice through clinical audit

Bernard Warren

This paper examines in detail how mental health nurses can successfully utilize clinical audit to improve quality of care for patients. An emphasis is given to active involvement…

Cholesterol reduction for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: a successful multi‐disciplinary approach to implementing evidence‐based treatment in a district general hospital

Paul D. Giles, Alan R. Cunnington, Mark Payne, David C. Crothers, Mark S. Walsh

The Walsall clinic for survivors of myocardial infarction is described. Coronary heart disease is a major health issue in Walsall. The starting point for the project was the…

Guidelines for coronary heart disease in general practice. Practice‐based audit: results from a dissemination and implementation programme

Sarah F. Mott, Gene S. Feder, Christopher J. Griffiths, Sheila M. Donovan

The East London Clinical Guidelines Project aims to improve clinical effectiveness by disseminating locally developed guidelines linked to research evidence to inner city primary…

Pathways to effective integrated pre‐hospital care

David G. Ellis

The traditional principles of the ambulance service have served to underpin developments in pre‐hospital care, which together with increasing skills of paramedics and technology…