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Understanding Evidence-Based Practice

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Definition
Background Questions   Questions focusing on basic or general knowledge about a condition and/or disorder  
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Boolean operators   Words used to connect or exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused results  
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature)    The largest and most in-depth nursing and allied health database  
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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  
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Cochrane Library   An electronic library designed to make available evidence needed for informed health-care decisions  
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Evidence Based medicine (EBM)   The conscientious explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.  
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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  
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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  
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Foreground Questions   Questions focusing on specific knowledge to inform clinical decisions or actions  
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Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria   Specific conditions that determine what evidence is retained and which evidence is discarded  
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MEDLINE   The largest searchable database covering medicine, health, and biomedical research  
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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  
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PICOT   Four elements: Patient/population; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome; Time frame that provide structure when writing clinical questions  
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Research utilization   The process by which knowledge generated from research becomes incorporated into clinical practice  
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Systematic review   A rigorous and orderly process of collecting and reviewing literature to answer a specific clinical question  
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"P" in PICOT   Population/Problem  
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"I" in PICOT   Intervention  
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"C" in PICOT   Comparison  
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"O" in PICOT   Outcome  
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"T" in PICOT   Time Frame  
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Practice of EBM means?   The practice of EBM means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research  
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