Ethics & Health Policy–Annotated Bibliography

Abstract

Several interdisciplinary perspectives on health care policy, economics, and ethics are described in the following books.

Essential Differences Between Evidence‐Based Nursing and Evidence‐Based Medicine

“…Of these two, the methods employed by Stevens and Thomas were more comprehensive. Other full-text annotated bibliographies presented both books and journal articles, but systematic a p proaches were lacking (Brown, 1999;Caputo & Gross, 1993;Mahon, 1997). The authors categorized subsequent references according to health education and epidemiologic concepts.…”

“…Geber and Latts (1993) did not define selection criteria for the references chosen, nor did they categorize the references in a comprehensible manner. Other full-text annotated bibliographies presented both books and journal articles, but systematic a p proaches were lacking (Brown, 1999;Caputo & Gross, 1993;Mahon, 1997). This brief search indicated the need for a systematic method of selecting references for and evaluating the quality of annotated bibliographies.…”