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An Educational Initiative to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP), recognized as essential in providing quality patient care and achieving optimal outcomes, is the integration of the best research evidence, patient preference, and clinician expertise. Healthcare providers must attain expertise in integrating EBP into the clinical …
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Exploring the uptake of evidence-based practice in social work
… experiences of social work practitioners with evidence and evidence-based practice. This research best describes a mature, experienced group of licensed American social workers, largely female and Caucasian, the majority of whom work in private practice settings. Data are explored both …
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Reconsidering Evidence: Evidence-based Practice and Maternity Care in Canada
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been widely adopted as a scientific and objective approach to health care. Enthusiastic acceptance of EBP within maternity care appears to have had unexpected effects on the care of childbearing women. This qualitative study of an interprofessional group of …
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Integration of evidence-based practice by acute care nurse practitioner
Evidenced based practice (EBP) is a concept that has been widely enveloped by the heath care industry. The benefits of EBP include cost savings, improved patient outcomes, and the translation ofresearch findings to the bedside. In spite of the industry's acceptance of EBP, the literature is devoid …
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Exploring evidence-based practice in Namibia - a co-operative inquiry
… existed on engagement in EBP by Namibian-based occupational therapists, the researcher set out to explore the usefulness and feasibility of evidence-based practice (EBP) for occupational therapists in Namibia. An action research, specifically co-operative inquiry was chosen as methodology. …
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An Architectural Framework for Evidence-Based Practice Diffusion, Dissemination, and Institutionalization
… of research studies. Unfortunately the evidence from most of those studies has yet to be applied to evidence-based practice (EBP) projects. Much of this research and many of EBP projects remain waiting to be retrieved, analyzed, translated, and applied to everyday practice. A finding …
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Implicit Stigma of Mental Illness: Attitudes in an Evidence-Based Practice
… by mental health practitioners utilizing evidence-based practices is unknown. The purposes of the current study were to 1) carefully examine implicit and explicit stigmatizing attitudes, or biases, among Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) staff and 2) explore the extent to which explicit …
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Individual and organizational Uses of Evidence-Based Practice in healthcare settings
In the three decades since its introduction, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has become standard clinical practice and the subject of targeted interventions at all levels of the health system. Despite its prevalence, EBP is frequently challenged on philosophical, practical, empirical, and normative …
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Leadership Characteristics of Nurse Managers Associated with Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice
The implementation of evidence into practice is a complex process. Estimates indicate that it takes seventeen years on average for research to be translated into practice. Delay in implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) results in poor patient outcomes and negative impacts to healthcare …
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Pediatric Physical Therapists and Evidence Based Practice: A Participatory Action Research Project
… describe in detail the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of a group of pediatric physical therapists regarding evidence-based practice. In addition, utilizing a collaborative, participatory action research approach, several strategies and outcomes were identified as a means to aid these …
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Pursuing Improved Quality of Life In the Atrial Fibrillation Population: Evidence-Based Practice
… guidelines recommend rate versus rhythm control based upon the presence or absence of symptoms and patient preference. Many patients continue to present with AF related complaints despite optimal therapy suggesting a superior evaluation and management strategy. QoL was examined in several AF …
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A Mixed Methods Case Study of Evidence-Based Practice in a Knowledge Organization
<p>Evidence-based practice offers a key strategy for closing the gap between research and practice in organizational and management studies. This approach calls for practitioners to apply key critical thinking competencies to gather and use the best available evidence to inform decision making and …
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Evidence-based Practice: An Exploration of Meaning Making Among Leaders of Community Coalitions
… considerable debate about the meaning of evidence-based practice (EBP), its utility, and the credibility of the evidence on which it relies, EBP has gained a great deal of currency in U.S. policy and practice fields. At the same time, little attention has been focused on how leaders …
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An Evidence Based Practice Training and Educational Curriculum for Adolescent Mental Health Promotion
… Youth Development (PYD) framework is a strength-based perspective that has demonstrated and empirically supported outcomes for the development of protective assets, life skills, and competencies. Primary care providers are at a disadvantage to address the cultivation of mental health promotion …
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Reducing Unplanned Extubations in the Intensive Care Unit With Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations
… complete a literature analysis, and provide evidence-based recommendations (EBR) to Banner Health. Background: Mechanical ventilation through endotracheal intubation is a common intervention in intensive care units (ICUs) to address acute respiratory distress. UEs lead to complications and …
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South African emergency medical service personnel perceptions of research and evidence-based practice
Background: Evidence based practice (EBP) is the deliberate application of up to date, best available evidence to make decisions about health care. The implementation of EBP includes five steps: asking the right question, accessing relevant evidence, appraising evidence for reliability and …
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The professionalisation of learning, teaching and assessment in Higher Education through evidence-based practice
… that effect, to develop and identify best practice, and to find ways of using that effect strategically.<br/><br/>Progression in each area is dealt with separately, as parallel developments of the main theme over the past 12 years.<br/><br/>In the three areas identified above, the research …
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Decommissioning the UKCS: increasing flexibility of approach through proportionate regulation and evidence based practice.
… and gas infrastructure, through an alternative evidence-based practice and proportionate regulatory approach. Despite nearly thirty years of periodic decommissioning activity, the regulatory drivers and programme design dynamics continue to be politically driven and not evidence based (Penner, …
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Human immunodeficiency viruses prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis : a doctoral evidence-based practice project
This doctoral evidence-based practice project aimed to assess the impact of educational handouts on increasing healthcare provider comfortability with prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a mobile health clinic. Despite the availability of PrEP, previous literature indicates that …
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