Evidence‐based Practice: What Evidence Counts?

What counts as evidence in evidence-based practice?

BACKGROUND Considerable financial and philosophical effort has been expended on the evidence-based practice agenda. Whilst few would disagree with the notion of delivering care based on information about what works, there remain significant challenges about what evidence is, and thus how practitioners use it in decision-making in the reality of clinical practice. AIM This paper continues the ...

NURSING AND HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY What counts as evidence in evidence-based practice?

MCCORMACK B. (2004) Journal of Advanced Nursing 47(1), 81–90 What counts as evidence in evidence-based practice? Background. Considerable financial and philosophical effort has been expended on the evidence-based practice agenda. Whilst few would disagree with the notion of delivering care based on information about what works, there remain significant challenges about what evidence is, and thu...

Evidence Based Practice - What is Evidence?

Evidence based practice provides clinicians a method to implement scientifically proven and appraised evidence in making clinical decisions during healthcare delivery. Findings from research, knowledge from basic science, clinical knowledge and expert opinion are all regarded as evidence. In line with evidence based hierarchy there has been extreme emphasis on clinical controlled trials. Howeve...

What Is Evidence-Based Practice?

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a new, comprehensive model of health care that provides guidance for other human services as well. The concept of EBP is subject to considerable misinterpretations, as those invested in the status quo attempt to distort this new and growing movement into existing practices. By drawing on the original source handbook, Evidence-BasedMedicine: How to Practice andTe...

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