Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
Introduction to Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
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Time needed to complete this module: 20 minutes
Learning Objectives:
- Define evidence based practice in relation to research, particularly health science research.
- Develop search strategies based on evidence based practice, PICO, library databases, and levels of evidence.
Evidence based practice (EBP) is crucial to research, but particularly health science research. Evidence based practice is defined as the "use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients...integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research."
Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, Gray JAM, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t. BMJ 1996;312(7023):71-72. http://www.bmj.com/content/312/7023/71
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This module is adapted from other EBP tutorials, such as:
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