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 |