In Bulgaria numerous approaches are used to treat stuttering, yet there is a paucity of empirically based research concerning stuttering treatment outcomes. ‘‘Evidence-based’’ treatments, built on well-researched and scientifically validated techniques, remain relatively rare in the field of stuttering and are usually limited to behavioral and fluency shaping approaches (Boberg & Kully, 1994; B...

along with the global fervor over evidence based medicine (ebm), certain measures have been taken in iran too. many educational workshops and national and international seminars have been held. multiple educational packages have been prepared and even included in the educational curriculum. in recent years, policies have been directed toward encouraging clinical guidelines, health technology as...

evidence-based principles (EBP) into the clinical decision-making process, I thought it would be worthwhile to assemble a special issue of JAAA concerned with how researcher-clinicians integrate evidence to create an effective treatment plan for their patients/clients. With this in mind, I asked the contributors to this special issue to “walk” the reader through the process of how they arrived ...

Significant efforts in the past decades to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation has emphasized increasing knowledge of EBP and developing interventions support adoption practice. These have resulted only limited sustained improvements daily use clinical most health professions. Many new with evidence effectiveness are readily adopted each year—indicating openness change is not pro...

This paper reports the results of a national event held during November 1998 to educate health professionals representing multiple disciplines about evidence-based practice (EBP), its implementation and the use of informatics to support EBP. A combination of educational delivery methods and multimedia was used. Through local group work, participants identified obstacles to EBP implementation an...

BACKGROUND Since the early 1990s, the National Health Service (NHS) has seen the encouragement and growth of research-based practice – described here on, as evidence-based practice (EBP). This policy has been promoted nationally by the UK Department of Health. As a consequence there has been a profusion of guidance, policy documents and service requirements disseminated to all levels of the NHS...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) remains a relatively new concept to nursing, creating many challenges in relation to curriculum evaluation. Most of the available literature on EBP focuses to a great extent on clinical practice. There is limited literature available addressing the incorporation of EBP into nursing curricula, particularly at the undergraduate level. Existing literature highlights d...

This paper explores Jacques Derrida's strategy of deconstruction as a way of understanding and critiquing nursing theory and practice. Deconstruction has its origins in philosophy, but I argue that it is useful and relevant as a way of challenging the dominant paradigm of any discipline, including nursing. Because deconstruction is notoriously difficult to define, I offer a number of examples o...