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Defining EBP

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is the framework for your clinical decision-making process.  It is the integration of:

  • Your knowledge, skills, and past experience (Clinical Expertise)
  • The unique preferences, concerns, and expectations of your patient (Patient Values/Expectations)
  • Valid and clinically relevant research (Best Evidence)

 

 

Why EBM?

David Sackett defined evidence-based medicine as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."

 

Definition from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

5 A's of the EBP Process

  • Review the Situation (Assess)
  • Define the clinical problem as a question (Ask)
  • Select resources, design a strategy, & search for the answer (Acquire)
  • Summarize the evidence yield (Appraise)
  • Apply the evidence (Apply)

EBP Acquiring Evidence steps

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