Sugar: moving from evidence to action

Sugar: moving from evidence to action.

Moving from Evidence to Action

Teaching EBP: implementation of evidence: moving from evidence to action.

Implementation of evidence is essential for patients to receive the best care possible (Heater et al. 1988). Implementation is the fourth step in the EBP process and requires moving from a focus on finding and evaluating the evidence to actively using it to produce quality outcomes. Prior columns have addressed teaching nurses how to accomplish the first three steps of the EBP process: (1) aski...

Moving from anecdote to evidence.

From evidence to action

Good guidelines will help us to take evidence into practice. In a survey among Dutch orthopedic surgeons, development and use of evidence-based guidelines was perceived as one of the best ways of moving from opinion-based to evidence-based orthopedic practice. The increasing number of guidelines means that knowing how to make a critical appraisal of guidelines is now a key part of every surgeon...