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What is EBP?
Evidence Based Practice (you may also see "Evidence Based Medicine" or EBM) is a process of life-long, problem-based learning. According to Sackett et al., "It's about integrating individual clinical experience and the best external evidence" (1996).The process involves:
- Converting information needs into focused questions.
- Efficiently tracking down the best evidence with which to answer the question.
- Critically appraising the evidence for validity and clinical usefulness.
- Applying the results in clinical practice.
- Evaluating performance of the evidence in clinical application.
(image from the Skeptic's Guide to Emergency Medicine)
This guide provides a high-level overview of EBP, from forming a searchable clinical question to assessing your search results. Continue to the next section titled "Focusing Your Question" to learn more about using PICO to write a question that will deliver results!
Resources:
Introduction to research and medical literature for health professionals by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9781284153798Publication Date: 2020From choosing a research project and developing the research process design, to systematically gathering information, analyzing, interpreting data, differentiating among conflicting results, and finally understanding the overall evaluation, Introduction to Research and Medical Literature for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition will ease fears and help students and practitioners develop research skills to acquire and contribute knowledge that benefits their patients.
- Evidence-Based Practice: an Introductory Tutorialfrom the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries
- Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't.by D. L. Sackett, W. M. Rosenberg, J. A. Gray, R. B. Haynes, and W. S. Richardson
- Evidence-based medicineSubject heading in UD Catalog
Essential Evidence-Based Medicine by Call Number: R723.7 .M396 2010ISBN: 9780521712415Publication Date: 2009-11-19Essential Evidence-Based Medicine teaches the principles of research study methodology and design so that the reader can become better at critically analysing scientific and clinical studies. It describes the basic elements needed to understand biostatistics and epidemiology as applied to health care studies, and how to become a more discriminating reader of the medical literature by adopting the skills of critical appraisal.
Evidence-Based Medicine by Call Number: R723.7 .E954 2011ISBN: 9780702031274Publication Date: 2010-12-03Evidence Based Medicine provides a clear explanation of the central questions: how to ask answerable clinical questions; how to translate them into effective searches for the best evidence; how to critically appraise that evidence for its validity and importance; and how to integrate it with patients' values and preferences.
Evidence-Based Practice by Call Number: RA427 .E935 2000ISBN: 0632050586Publication Date: 2000-05-18This text introduces the key concept of Evidence-Based Practice and accounts for its emergence and rapid expansion within and beyond medicine. It then goes on to describe how evidence-based practice is being translated in key areas (medicine, nursing, mental health education and social welfare) while critically appraising the strengths and weaknesses of evidence-based practice as it applies in a range of fields of professional practice.
- Evidence-based dentistrySubject heading in UD Catalog
- Evidence-based nursingSubject heading in UD Catalog
- Evidence-based psychiatrySubject heading in UD Catalog
Evidence-Based Medicine and Practices by
Call Number: Resource Available OnlineISBN: 9781634823777Publication Date: 2015-01-01In this book, an evidence-based approach to dietary and lifestyle medicine is taken. An approach known as epidemiology-based health promotion, which compiles and presents available evidence that could help physicians, other healthcare professionals and members of the general public make wiser decision about healthcare, is also explored.
Evidence Based Physical Therapy by Call Number: RM701 .F48 2012ISBN: 9780803617162Publication Date: 2012-05-15Features a five step process for evidence-based practice. Covers inferential statistics and clinically relevant statistics and interpretation of statistics for clinical practice, with key statistical analyses that inform clinical decisions, including confidence intervals, effect size, number needed to treat (NNT), and minimal clinically important differences. Includes special pedagogical elements such as specific search strategies for Searching.
Evidence Based Practice in Sport and Exercise by Call Number: Resource Available OnlineISBN: 9780803640283Publication Date: 2016-09-01Demonstrates how to formulate a question clinically relevant to a client, and the five-step process that can be used to answer it. Explains the different types of research and the different methods and measurements that are used to evaluate each type.Evidence-Based Practice in Complementary and Alternative Medicine by
Call Number: Resource Available OnlineISBN: 9783642245657Publication Date: 2012-01-28This book investigates the ways in which the evidence base is influencing complementary and alternative medicine in general and Ayurveda and allied health practices in particular.
Evidence-Based Practice in Primary Care by Call Number: Resource Available Online (Limit 1 user at a time)ISBN: 0585393907Publication Date: 2001-01-01Evidence Based Practice in Primary Health Care is split into two sections. The frist discusses how the individual can apply evidence based medicine in the clinical setting, and the second covers the wider issue of changes in organisation and strategy to promote better and more effective delivery of care within a practice or primary care group.
