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EBP Chapter 3 M1
Understanding Evidence-Based Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Background Questions | Questions focusing on basic or general knowledge about a condition and/or disorder |
| Boolean operators | Words used to connect or exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused results |
| CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) | The largest and most in-depth nursing and allied health database |
| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | One of the most popular databases in the Cochrane Library, which reviews and summarizes individual clinical trials and systematic reviews from more than 100 medical journals |
| Cochrane Library | An electronic library designed to make available evidence needed for informed health-care decisions |
| Evidence Based medicine (EBM) | The conscientious explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. |
| Evidence Based nursing (EBN) | The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of theory-derived, research-based information in making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups of patients and in consideration of individual needs and preferences |
| Evidence Based Practice | The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of theory-derived, research based information in making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups of patients and in consideration of individual needs and preferences |
| Foreground Questions | Questions focusing on specific knowledge to inform clinical decisions or actions |
| Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria | Specific conditions that determine what evidence is retained and which evidence is discarded |
| MEDLINE | The largest searchable database covering medicine, health, and biomedical research |
| Meta-analysis | A statistical method that takes the results of many studies in a specific area and synthesizes their findings to draw conclusions regarding the state of the science in the area of focus |
| PICOT | Four elements: Patient/population; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome; Time frame that provide structure when writing clinical questions |
| Research utilization | The process by which knowledge generated from research becomes incorporated into clinical practice |
| Systematic review | A rigorous and orderly process of collecting and reviewing literature to answer a specific clinical question |
| "P" in PICOT | Population/Problem |
| "I" in PICOT | Intervention |
| "C" in PICOT | Comparison |
| "O" in PICOT | Outcome |
| "T" in PICOT | Time Frame |
| Practice of EBM means? | The practice of EBM means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research |