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 ...

The context of general practice makes the translation of evidence into clinical practice difficult. General practitioners interested in implementing evidence met at The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' 2006 Annual Scientific Convention. We discussed evidence based medicine (EBM) journal club as a solution to this problem, including keys to success and barriers to overcome. The...

Modern medicine increasingly requires the clinician, including urologists, to apply evidence based medicine in their daily practice. What clinicians thought were true are being constantly changed through evidence search and evidence merging to derive on a new clinical message. Addition of new evidence then goes on to regularly challenge these clinical messages. This book is divided into two par...

In public health and chronic disease prevention there is increasing priority for effective use of evidence in practice. In Ontario, Canada, despite various models being advanced, public health practitioners are seeking ways to identify and apply evidence in their work in practical and meaningful ways. In a companion article, "Strengthening Chronic Disease Prevention Programming: The Toward Evid...

There have been several attempts to annotate communicative functions to utterances of verbal feedback in English previously. Here, we suggest an annotation scheme for verbal and non-verbal feedback utterances in French including the categories base, attitude, previous and visual. The data comprises conversations, maptasks and negotiations from which we extracted ca. 13,000 candidate feedback ut...

This article examines the implicit promises of fairness in evidence based medicine (EBM), namely to avoid discrimination through objective processes, and to distribute effective treatments fairly. The relationship between EBM and vulnerable groups (such as those disadvantaged by virtue of poverty, ethnicity, age, gender, mental health problems or similar) is examined. Several aspects of EBM are...

AIM This study aimed to (i) assess the level of patient satisfaction and its association with different sociodemographic and healthcare characteristics in an emergency care centre (ECC) in Saudi Arabia and (ii) to identify the predictors of patients' satisfaction. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 390 adult patients with Canadian triage category III and IV who visited ECC at King Abdulazi...

Methods The nurse’s competencies and knowledge about using literature based on research, was examined through an anonymous questionnaire. The purpose was to identify the nurse’s competencies and knowledge about evidence-based medicine and evidence-based nursing. A steering committee with representatives from the department’s leadership and the clinical specialist has been collected. They choose...

Dubai has rapidly risen to prominence in the Persian Gulf region as a center of global commerce and tourism and as a cultural crossroad between East and West. The health-care infrastructure has undergone rapid development. Collaborations with academic medical centers now exist to advance clinical care, teaching and research. Emergency medicine has also advanced and is undergoing dynamic change....

The PEDro scale was developed to rate the methodological quality trials on PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database and includes 10 criteria. Ratings of trials in OTseeker, however, are presented separately with respect to items relevant to a trial’s internal validity (8 items) and items relevant to a trial’s statistical reporting (2 items). This is called the PEDro scale (partitioned). A cop...