Evidence-Based Practice: Other EBP Guides, Tutorials, Terms
This guide is designed to assist health care professionals to become effective and efficient users of the medical and nursing literature.
Evidence-Based Practice: Navigation
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Other EBP Guides, Tutorials, Terms | RN Residency Teaching Activities | How to Identify Peer-Reviewed Journals
EBM / EBP Tutorials
Nursing Experts: Translating the Evidence (NExT) Course
- Free online training about evidence-based practice
- Aimed at Acute and Ambulatory Care Nurses
- Earn up to 7 FREE CEUs for completion of the course
- Open to anyone interested in learning more about EBP.
Using PubMed in Evidence-based Practice - NIH Library
Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine
- From Duke University Medical Center Library and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library.
- Lamar Soutter Library, UMass
SUNY Health Sciences Evidence-Based Medicine Course
EBM Info Sites
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford University)
The Centre promotes evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them. Includes the EBM Toolbox, an assortment of materials which are very useful for practitioners of EBM, and EBM Teaching Materials, including PowerPoint presentations.
Netting the Evidence
From the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield, UK. offers a Google Custom Search Engine that includes over 100 evidence-based practice resources.
Other EBP LibGuides consulted to make this one
These are some of the LibGuides I consulted in the making of our EBP LibGuide.
- Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine - Evidence at Becker
- Evidence-based Practice - University of Toronto
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Evidence-based Practice Tools - U Washington
Other Helpful EBP Guides:
- Duke University’s EBP Guide
- Memorial Sloan Kettering
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Hofstra University
- University of Southern California
- NYU New York University
- Florida Atlantic University
- VCU Virginia Commonwealth
- UAB at Birmingham
Hierarchy of Evidence
Evidence-Based Practice: A Pyramid of Evidence
Pyramid of Evidence - Evidence-Based Medicine
Hierarchical Organization of Clinical Research Evidence
Articles
Melnyk BM, Gallagher‐Ford L, Zellefrow C, et al. The first U.S. study on nurses’ evidence‐based practice competencies indicates major deficits that threaten healthcare quality, safety, and patient outcomes. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2018;15(1):16-25. doi:10.1111/wvn.12269
Connor L, Dean J, et al. Evidence-based practice improves patient outcomes and healthcare system return on investment: Findings from a scoping review. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2023 Feb;20(1):6-15. doi: 10.1111/wvn.12621. Epub 2023 Feb 8. PMID: 36751881. Link to article.
Definitions: Is it Research, EBP, or QI?
Research - is conducted to generate new knowledge about a particular concern or problem using scientific methods and can be experimental, observational, or descriptive. Existing research can be synthesized and analyzed to create new concepts, methodologies, and or understandings.
Evidence-based Practice - is defined as a problem-solving approach to clinical decision-making that integrates the best evidence from research with a clinician's expertise and a patient's personal preferences and values. When the term EBP is used, it means that a searchable question was written, a literature search completed, the external evidence was critically appraised/synthesized, and the compelling body of evidence led to best practice recommendation(s). Once a best practice is identified, clinicians use their clinical expertise and consider patient's values and preferences when making decisions.
Quality Improvement (QI) - focuses on processes to improve efficiencies and eliminate waste (anything that does not add value) within a hospital or healthcare system. Rapid-cycle improvement strategies (ie Plan-Do-Study-Act) are used to make changes, and then outcomes are observed and measured. The NAM, formerly the Institute of Medicine, defines QI as "the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge" ION US Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001).
Connor L, Dean J, et al. Evidence-based practice improves patient outcomes and healthcare system return on investment: Findings from a scoping review. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2023 Feb;20(1):6-15. doi: 10.1111/wvn.12621. Epub 2023 Feb 8. PMID: 36751881. Link to article.