Evidence Based Practice

Proactive monitoring for newly emerging evidence: the lost step of EBP?
D Keister
Evidence Based Medicine, 2008, 13(3), pp69
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Research use week (Northeastern Ontario) tools, strategies and stories of using evidence in rural and remote health services delivery and policy development: Final report
May 2007 - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
This report presents the outputs from a conference, where 100 decision makers and researchers gathered for three days, learning about different types of evidence and when and how to make that evidence work for them, being a leader for evidence-informed decision-making, and how to put organizational structures in place to support the use of research evidence. The report contains useful tips for improving collaboration in healthcare organisations. Click here to read the report.

Evidence and health public policy: insights from health and political sciences
P Fafard
May 2008 – National Collaborating Centre for Health Public Policy
This paper focuses on the requirements of healthy public policy and the role of scientific evidence in the development of such policies. Click here to read the report.

From news to everyday use: the difficult art of implementation
K Guldbrandsson
2008 – Swedish National Institute of Public Health
This report is about implementation. It presents and discusses scientific surveys of how innovations, ie new methods and products, are introduced, realized and disseminated. Click here to read the full report.

Patterns of research utilization on patient care units
CA Estabrooks, S Scott, JE Squires, B Stevens, L O’Brien-Pallas, J Watt-Watson, J Profetto-McGrath, K McGilton, K Golden-Biddle, J Lander, G Donner, G Boschma, CK Humphrey, J Williams
Implementation Science, 2008, 3:31
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Translation to practice: a randomised, controlled study of an evidence-based booklet for breast-care nurses in the United Kingdom
M Kirshbaum
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2008, 5(2), pp60-74
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