What Are Evidenced-Based Care Sheets?
Evidence-Base Care Sheets (EBCS), a product of CINAHL, synthesize published evidence for select ailments and treatments. Evidence-Based Care Sheets are broken down into three essential parts:
- What We Know
- A bullet point distillation of available research, guidelines, reports, legislation, and other sources of information.
- What We Can Do
- A bulleted list of actions that nurses can take to address the disease and/or treatment.
- Coded References List
- EBCS employ endnotes to cite sources. On top of the typical APA citation, EBCS use a coding matrix for the purpose of ranking the strength of evidence found within the sources. For further information on the coding matrix, please see the end of an EBCS or take a look at the Coding Matrix Box on this page.
Accessing Evidence-Based Care Sheets
With our access to CINHAL, we have access to 133 Evidence-Based Care Sheets about 99 topics.To access these sheets, start by clicking the following link:
Click "Evidence-Based Care Sheets" from the top navigation bar
If you do not see "Evidence-Based Care Sheets" on the menubar, click the "More" dropdown
There are two ways to find sheets.
- Searching
- You can search the sheets by entering your keywords and clicking browse
- Browsing
- You can also browse the sheets by clicking the "Previous" and "Next" buttons.
- Check the checkbox next to the topic you wish to see
- Click the "Search" button
Click the PDF link to see the full-text of the sheet
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
You may notice on the Evidence-Based Care Sheets codes that start with "ICD." These refer to the International Classification of Diseases. For further information on ICD-10, see the link below.
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ICD-10 Version:2016ICD is the foundation for the identification of health trends and statistics globally, and the international standard for reporting diseases and health conditions. It is the diagnostic classification standard for all clinical and research purposes. ICD defines the universe of diseases, disorders, injuries and other related health conditions, listed in a comprehensive, hierarchical fashion that allows for:
- easy storage, retrieval and analysis of health information for evidenced-based decision-making;
- sharing and comparing health information between hospitals, regions, settings and countries; and
- data comparisons in the same location across different time periods.
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®)
Instead of using ICD codes, the assignment requires the use of CPT codes.
What is the CPT?
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), Fourth Edition, is a set of codes, descriptions, and guidelines intended to describe procedures and services performed by physicians and other health care professionals, or entities. Each procedure or service is identified with a five-digit code. The use of CPT codes simplifies the reporting of procedures and services. In the CPT code set, the term “procedure” is used to describe services, including diagnostic tests.
CPT Categories
- Category I
- Six Main Sections
- Evaluation and Management
- Anesthesia
- Surgery
- Radiology
- Pathology and Laboratory
- Medicine
- Category II
- Performance Management
- Category III
- Emerging Technology, Services, & Procedures
Available Resources
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CPT 2017 and Relative Value (RVU) LookupAMA offers this free search for the most current CPT and RVU codes (sign in required). Users can perform up to 5 free searches per day. Based on 2017 CPT codes and Medicare Physician Payment Schedule
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CPT 2016 Professional Edition by ISBN: 9781622022045Publication Date: 2015-09-01The most recent edition that the Library provides free, full-text access. -
Basic Current Procedural Terminology/HCPCS Coding, 2013 Edition by ISBN: 9781584264002Publication Date: 2012-12-31
Coding Matrix
The following table presents the Coding Matrix as seen within an Evidence-Based Care Sheet. They are listed in order with the strongest evidence at the top to the weakest evidence at the bottom.
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| M | Published meta-analysis |
| SR | Published systematic or integrative literature review |
| RCT | Published research (randomized controlled trial) |
| R | Published research (not randomized controlled trial) |
| C | Case histories, case studies |
| G | Published guidelines |
| RV | Published review of the literature |
| RU | Published research utilization report |
| QI | Published quality improvement report |
| L | Legislation |
| PGR | Published government report |
| PFR | Published funded report |
| PP | Policies, procedures, protocols |
| X | Practice exemplars, stories, opinions |
| GI | General or background information/texts/reports |
| U | Unpublished research, reviews, poster presentations or other such materials |
| CP | Conference proceedings, abstracts, presentation |