Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-based Practice

Library and Web Resources

Clinical Work Stations

·  Up to date

·  Zynx

Clinical Informatics Consult Service (Eskind Biomedical Library service)

·  Librarians support clinical teams in developing evidence-based protocols, pathways, and order sets

·  Contact person: Rebecca Jerome, 936-1364

·  Search doc is an on-line link that provides tips about where to look for relevant evidence

Eskind Digital Library

·  EBM database

·  Cochrane Review

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

·  Link to evidence-based practice centers: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic.epc

·  Link to list of evidence-based reports: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcindex

·  Link to the National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/

Research-based nursing journals

NT Research
Biological Research for Nursing
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
Journal of Nursing Measurement
Western Journal of Nursing Research
Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice
Advances in Nursing Science
Oncology Nursing Forum
Nursing Research / Evidence Based Nursing
Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis
Clinical Nursing Research
Nurse Researcher
Applied Nursing Research
Research in Nursing and Health
Nursing Science Quarterly
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Annual Review of Nursing Research

Evidence-based Nursing Internet Resources

1.  The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is a professional review organization creating systematic reviews of evidence based nursing. JBI Connect allows you to select a practice problem and build a reference list and synthesis table.

http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/home.php

2.  Evidence-based Clinical Practice Working Group, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of McMaster, Canada.

http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/acts/ebcp.htm

3.  Books related to EBN:

http://www.astuk.com/products-by-keywords/evidence-based-nursing.html

4.  University of Hertfordshire, UK, has an informative web page to explainevidence-based medicine.

http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm.htm

5.  A wonderful EBM website from University of Toronto, Canada,aims to develop, disseminate, and evaluate resources that can be used to practise and teach EBM for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education for health care professionals from a variety of clinical disciplines.

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/medicine/ebm/

6.  This is a Nursing Resource Collection from University of Massachusetts – Amherst

http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/business/ebn.html

7.  The unit for Evidence Based Nursing at Malmö University the Department of Nursing and Public Health, School of Health and Society, recently formed a unit for Evidence Based Nursing.

http://www.hs.mah.se/Research/Evidenseng.htm

8.  Developing Evidence Based Nursing Practice, Health Care Practice Research and Development Unit (HCPRDU) University of Salford, UK.

http://www.salford.ac.uk/ihr/hcprdu/complete/ebnp.htm

9.  NHS research and development: center for evidence based medicine. The Center was established in Oxford University, UK. Its broad aim is to promote evidence-based health care and provide support and resources to anyone who wants to make use of them.

http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/

10. The Western Australian Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery, School of Nursing, Curtin University of Technology, AU.

http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/planstats/wacebnm/

11. Evidence Based Health Care, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.

http://www.slu.edu/libraries/hsc/wr_ebhc.shtml

12. Evidence-based Practice websites for nurse researchers, by Mary E. Duffy, the Director of the Center for Nursing Research at Boston College, School of Nursing

http://www.nursing.uc.edu/nrm/duffy11799.htm

13. Techniques for Locating Evidence-Based Practice Resources, University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries

http://healthlinks.washington.edu/ebp/

14. Evidence-based Medicine resource and information, Duke University medical center library.

http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/ebm/index.html

15. Nursing Informatics and Evidence-Based Nursing, University of Wisconsin Health Science libraries

http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/chslib/ad/docs/nurfmatc.htm

Source: Evidence Based nursing http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm#top#top

Evaluating Quality of the Research
Content / Description
Study Design / Random, blind, or repeated measures
Population / Brief description of larger population
Sample / Sample characteristics, randomization
Inclusions/Exclusion Criteria / Criteria described
Time Frame of study / Length of total study
Time Frame of treatment / Length of intervention
Intervention / Intervention description
Data collection / Dependent variables, independent variables
Analysis / Technique used
Results / Results reported in terms of research questions (hypotheses)
Conclusions / Conclusions of study
Limitations / Subjects lost to follow-up
Blinding / Did person giving intervention know whether the subjects were in the experimental or control groups

Source: Evidence Based nursing http://evidence.ahc.umn.edu/ebn.htm#top#top

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