Nurse Anesthesia
Key Components of EBP
Evidence-Based Medicine is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. (Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, et al. Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2000.)
Key components of Evidence-Based Practice
- Patient preference/values
- Clinical expertise
- Best research evidence
Five Steps of the Evidence-based Process
- Ask a clinical question
- Obtain the best research literature
- Critically appraise the evidence
- Integrate the evidence with clinical expertise, patient preferences
- Evaluate the outcomes of the decision
A well-built clinical/research question includes typically includes following components:
- P - patient/population
- I - intervention
- C - comparison or "gold standard"
- O - outcome(s)
- (T) - timeframe, type of question
Resources
Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology by Publication Date: 2013-02-13
- JAMAevidenceJAMAevidence helps decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
