Howlett (Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State U.), Rogo, and Shelton outline the basic concepts of evidence-based practice, its applications in medicine, and how to interpret biostatistics and biomedical research, for students in physician assistant, public health, nursing, dental hygiene, pharmacy, and rehabilitation programs. Focus is on the skills needed to access, interpret, evaluate, and apply evidence in patient-centered healthcare decisions, and communicating with patients, colleagues, and other professionals, rather than designing and conducting clinical studies. They explain evidence-based practice and how it works; types and methods of healthcare publications; types and modes of health communication, with an emphasis on patient education; ways to locate evidence to answer clinical questions; descriptive and inferential statistics; and applications in epidemiology, assessment and diagnosis, treatment, harm, and prevention, and pharmaceutical information. A basic science and statistics background is assumed. The book is supplemented with online access to crosswords, flashcards, a glossary, matching questions, quizzes, and web links. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)