Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) integrates the best available research evidence with clinical expertise, patient values and preferences, and the realities of the care context.
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Evidence-Based Practice
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) integrates the best available research evidence with clinical expertise, patient values and preferences, and the realities of the care context.
The EBP process begins with a focused clinical question, continues through efficient evidence searching and critical appraisal, and ends with application, evaluation and continuous learning.
Good evidence use requires attention to study design, bias, precision, clinical relevance, applicability, patient priorities and resource implications.
Effect measures, confidence intervals, diagnostic accuracy statistics and measures of clinical significance help translate research findings into practical decisions.
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| Core EBP integration | Evidence + clinical expertise + patient values/preferences + context/resources |
| Common framework | PICO: Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome |
| EBP cycle | Ask -> Acquire -> Appraise -> Apply -> Assess |
| Appraisal focus | Validity, importance, applicability, bias, precision and relevance |
| Absolute effect | Risk difference supports NNT concepts |
| Decision principle | Statistical significance does not automatically equal clinical significance |
Core references
- Patient values and preferences include personal goals, expectations, culture, tolerance of risk and the trade-offs that matter when choosing among options.
- The reference standard is the best available method for determining whether the target condition is truly present or absent.
- Preferences reflect how a person values potential benefits, harms, burdens and modes of care when choosing among reasonable options.
- Straus SE et al. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM.
- Guyatt G et al., eds. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature.
- Greenhalgh T. How to Read a Paper.
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