Is it Evidence-Based Practice?
Evidence-based practice is used to decide on the optimum care of an individual patient based on the best current evidence.
After you have found a relevant peer-reviewed article, do you still need a good overview to determine if the information will qualify as evidence-based practice? This article has a section on "Understanding EBP":
Conner, B. T. (2014). Differentiating research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement. American Nurse Today, 9(6), 26-31.
Remember, you need to find an article that:
- is peer-reviewed
- has acceptable evidence from a broad study
- has information based on multiple resources/studies
- What is Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?Overview and tutorial. From Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice What it is (and what it isn't)From the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
- Evidence-Based Practice: An Interprofessional TutorialFrom University of Minnesota Libraries, Health Sciences Libraries
Use CINAHL Complete
The database CINAHL Complete has the option to search for only Evidence-Based Practice articles. This option is under the Advanced Search.
Check the box for Evidence-Based Practice:
TIP: EBP "Fact Sheets" are not peer-reviewed articles.
Searching
While you can always add the phrase "evidence based practice" to a search, it probably will NOT be much help as the term may not be used in the article or its description. What's best? Your evalulation of likely articles.