Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

KEY TERMS propositional knowledge: The science of nursing or knowledge that is obtained from research and scholarship nonproposi ...

singular combinations of diverse arrays of methodological approaches directed toward maintaining empirical intimacy with the one ...

care. One way to define pain is an uncomfortable feeling, but this definition is problematic because it is too broad and other c ...

the perspective of the author’s analysis. Possible uses of the concept should be presented, including definitions and descriptio ...

The Cochrane Library (2017) stated, “A systematic review attempts to iden- tify, appraise and synthesize all the empirical evide ...

obtains relevant literature (Cooper, 1998). This begins the data collection phase of the systematic review. Through an exhaustiv ...

is still relatively small and quantitative results are reported, then descriptive statistics can be applied to the group of stud ...

reliability of the estimate, in this case, effect size (Cooper et  al., 2009). Due to the sophisticated analysis, a meta-analysi ...

» consider important patient subgroups and patient preferences, as appropriate; » be based on an explicit and transparent proces ...

a series of questions that can be used to guide systematic review updates. As the number of guidelines has increased, guideline ...

At the end of this section, you will be able to: ‹ List interdisciplinary databases that can provide evidence for practice ‹ Use ...

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov AHRQ works with 12 Evidence-Based Practice Centers that de ...

Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK16710/ The Health Services/Technology Assessmen ...

The Guide to Community Preventive Services http://www.thecommunityguide.org The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a mult ...

Fortunately, few ethical dilemmas arise when considering use of evidence. Care must be taken to label evidence correctly and to ...

Apply What You Have Learned Your committee has found three additional articles. They are not reports about research studies, yet ...

Once you have searched for the item, it will appear. To obtain the summary, click on the link “JBI Database PDF.” The summary wi ...

REFERENCES Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2014). Updating systematic reviews. Retrieved from https://www.ahrq.gov/ ...

Cooper, H. M. (1998). Synthesizing research: A guide for literature reviews (3rd ed., Vol. 2). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Cooper, ...

Decisions about practice should always be based on a careful appraisal of the evidence. Decision UNIT 4 © Madredus/Shutterstock ...