Newsletter Articles | September 1, 2012
Beyond Evidence-based Research: Big Data & Practice-Based Evidence
Beyond Evidence-Based Research: Big Data & Practice-Based Evidence
Research has contributed a large amount of data to the health and human service industry, much of which has come in the form of evidence-based recommendations to help improve the efforts and services of individual providers. But acquiring evidence-based practices through this approach is costly on two fronts – it takes large amounts of money to organize and conduct randomized controlled trials, and it takes a long time to deliver the findings to practitioners in a usable form. This month, I had a chance to speak with Dennis P . . .