All about EBP
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AHRQAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a Federal agency. Its mission is to improve the quality of healthcare and promote evidence-based decision making. Includes a collection of Evidence Reports.
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BestBETSBETS are designed specifically for Emergency medicine.
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National Guideline ClearinghouseA database of evidence based clinical practice guidelines and other related documents.
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NICE Evidence SearchGuidance, advice, quality standards and information services for health, public health and social care. Also contains resources to help maximise use of evidence and guidance.
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PubMedFree access to MEDLINE from the National Library of Medicine. Can limit to Systematic Reviews.
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TRIP Database: Evidence Based MedicineA free meta-search engine "allowing users to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice."
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Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-RepositoryThe Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository is a free, open-access alternative publishing venue committed to providing knowledge resources to help advance nurses and patient care.
Evidence-based practice is about using the best available evidence (eg the results of case studies, cohort studies, clinical trials, etc) to inform clinical practice.
The steps in locating evidence include:
- Identifying the clinical problem
- Formulating a relevant answerable question
- Selecting the best sources to search
- Searching for and appraising the evidence that you find
- Assessing its relevance to your question
- Acting on or applying the evidence to your clinical situation
In formulating a question, a good technique to use is to take your clinical problem and apply the PICO method.
Evidence-Based Nursing
Evidence-Based Nursing and Research - what's the difference?
Although you may hear these two terms used interchangeably they are not the same thing. Evidence-Based Nursing is based on research. Research provides the evidence for Evidence-Based Nursing. To practice Evidence-Based Nursing, nurses use the evidence (often in the form of journal articles) to guide their practice.
The PICO Model:
PICO stands for:-
Patient, Population or Problem
Intervention or exposure
Comparison
Outcome
In practice, well-built clinical questions usually contain these four elements.
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PICO - Asking Focused QuestionsFrom the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
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Clinical examples using PICOFrom the Clinical Information Access Portal (CIAP)
This tutorial from the University of Minnesota guides you through the steps involved in EBP with practice questions for the professionals in the following desciplines:
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Public Health
- Physical/Physio Therapy and any other health related fields
Books in EBP
Assessing Evidence to Improve Population Health and Wellbeing by ISBN: 9780857253897Publication Date: 2011-07-01
The Advanced Practice Nurse Cardiovascular Clinician by ISBN: 9780826138576Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Fast Facts for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, Second Edition by ISBN: 9780826194060Publication Date: 2015-09-28
Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions by ISBN: 9780335208746Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, Fifth Edition by ISBN: 9780826171665Publication Date: 2016-03-28
Lange 2009 Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment by ISBN: 9780071591249Publication Date: 2008-10-02
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2011 by Call Number: 615.075 CURISBN: 9780071700559Publication Date: 2010-09-15
Current Diagnosis and Treatment by Call Number: 618 CURISBN: 9780071638562Publication Date: 2012-08-28
Evidence-Based Nursing by Call Number: 610.73 EVIISBN: 9781405145978Publication Date: 2007-12-26
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook by Call Number: 616.075 NURISBN: 9780323048262Publication Date: 2007-07-02
Evidence-Based Public Health by Call Number: 362.1072 EVIISBN: 9780199563623Publication Date: 2010-02-01
