Who knows best? Evidence-based practice and the service user contribution
- Författare
- Glasby J., P. B.
- Titel
- Who knows best? Evidence-based practice and the service user contribution
- Utgivningsår
- 2006
- Tidskrift
- Critical Social Policy
- Volym
- 26
- Häfte
- 1
- Sidor
- 268-184
- Sammanfattning
This paper reviews the assumptions underlying traditional medical research and critiques the concept of 'evidence-based practice'. In particular, it identifies and counters three basic tenets of this approach: the alleged need for objectivity in research, the notion of hierarchies of evidence and the primacy of systematic reviews. Instead, the paper argues for a new emphasis on 'knowledge-based practice', recognizing that the practice wisdom of health and social care practitioners and the lived experience of service users can be just as valid a way of knowing the world as formal research.