shiffman rightly raises questions about who exercises power in global health, suggesting power is a complex concept, and the way it is exercised is often opaque. power that is not based on financial strength but on knowledge or experience, is difficult to estimate, and yet it may provide the legitimacy to make moral claims on what is, or ought to be, on global health agendas. twenty years ago p...

conclusions the present study showed that nursing students have not a high mean score in the three subscales of knowledge, attitude and intention to implement ebp. it is essential for faculties and nurse managers not only to focus on education of ebp, but also to support nurses and nursing students to implement it in the process patient care. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study,...

conclusions available limited studies show that iranian healthcare personnel need hav vaccination. however, for selecting an appropriate preventive method for this high risk group, more original studies are still needed. results a gradual shift in age of hav infection has been seen from childhood toward adulthood. data about hav seropositivity among iranian hcws are very limited. however based ...

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 scope and purpose of this work is 2-fold: to synthesize the available evidence and to translate it into recommendations. This document provides recommendations only when there is evidence to support them. As such, they do not constitute a complete protocol for clinical use. Our intention is that these recommendations be used by others to develop treatment protocols, which necessarily need t...

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2018 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .

Computerization and increasing need for evidence based medicine are not stopping at biomedical research. Clinical trials need participants and the problem of matching patients with eligibility criteria to support clinical trials has many different solutions. A detailed analysis of stakeholders' requirements would help implementing better patient recruitment systems (PRSs) in the future. Thus we...

Best Practice Statements (BPS) are designed to facilitate evidence-based practice. This descriptive, exploratory study evaluated the impact of five of these statements in Scotland. A postal survey of 1,278 registered nurses was undertaken to determine use of these statements and their perceived benefits (response rate: 42%). Use of the BPS differed across clinical sites and some statements were...