Background: Nurses constitute the largest group of health care providers and play a fundamental role in continuing of care and health promotion and preservation at different levels of the health provider system. After new change in the health care system, society expects more from nurses. Researchers believe that in order to elevate the quality of nursing care, acting based on the evidence and ...

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results data analysis identified twenty subcategories and four main categories. main categories included barriers were related to laboring women, persons providing care, the organization environment and health system. conclusions the adoption of evidence based intrapartum care is a complex process. in this regard, identifying potential barriers is the first step to determine and apply effective...

In an effort to improve patient care, there has been a growing trend across the nation and the world to embed the principles of evidence-based dentistry into mainstream care delivery by private practicing dentists. Evidence-based dentistry is an essential tool that is used to improve the quality of care and to reduce the gap between what we know, what is possible, and what we do. An evidence-ba...

background: participation of nurses in research studies is a requirement of achieving evidence-based nursing, but studies in this regard are limited. this study aimed to determine the viewpoints of nurses regarding the facilitating factors and obstacles of participating in research and utilization of its results in clinical practice. methods: this descriptive study was done in 2013 at teaching ...

abstract background: despite the scientific and medical advances for management of complicated health issues, the current maternity care setting has increased risks for healthy women and their babies. the aim of this study was to conduct an overview of published systematic reviews on the interventions used most commonly for management of normal labor and delivery in the first stage of labor. ma...

The idea of promoting evidence based medicine, understood as practicing according to the best evidence based on exhaustive and systematic reviews of all available data, is very convincing and difficult to contest rationally. This certainly does not mean that the exact type of evidence to take into consideration is indisputable. Thus, Maynard [2] recently accused leading spokesmen for the eviden...

These are the abstracts for the poster and podium presentations from the recent 13th National Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurses Conference in San Diego, California. They represent a broad range of neonatal issues. By sharing this information, we hope to increase awareness of research and innovative programs within the neonatal health care community, and support evidence-based nursing practice. ...

PURPOSE The quality of nursing care in geriatric hospitals has been of concern. Nurses need to provide evidence-based nursing using best available research findings in order to maximize the quality of care. Research utilization is a major part of evidence-based nursing practice. Empowerment is an important factor that may influence the context of nursing practice. The purpose of this study was ...

Clinically relevant attitudes and guidelines issued by a rational evidence based medicine (EBM) approach integrate individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. However, many physicians, while considering the ultraliberal world they are practising in and fearing that the primary goal of managed care in a market environment is reducing...