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The database that provides the highest form of evidence that you would go to first to find systematic reviews and RCTS?
What is the Cochrane Library
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The model or framework that we use at Northwell to help us depict various forms of knowledge in a relative sequence, as research evidence is moved through several cycles, combined with other knowledge and integrated into practice. It provides a framework for systematically putting EBP processes into operation”
What is the Stevens' ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation and Evidence Based Practice
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A government agency produced database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. It is maintained as a public resource by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the DHHS.
What is that National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) which is a database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
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A Boolean logic operator that narrows your results. It tells the database that ALL search terms must co-occur or be present in the search. eg. thermometer and accuracy and adults
What is AND
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The Education and Reference Librarian at your beck and call to assist you with your EBP literature searches
Who is Janice Lester. She can be found on the C level of the Teaching Center and her email is jlester1@northwell.edu or x7071
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The easiest way that one would access the EMIL (Electronic Medical Information Library) from the Northwell Intranet
What is Quicklinks. Or What is typing 'Library' into the main Intranet Search box
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A scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge
What is RESEARCH
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A kind of method or study that employs research including grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, and qualitative description. Refers to a method of inquiry in which a researcher acting as data collection instrument, seeks to answer questions about how or why a particular phenomenon occurs. It is a form of social enquiry that focuses on the way people interpret and make sense of their experiences and the world in which they live’ (Atkinson, 1990, p7).
What is Qualitative research.
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A database that has an evidence based practice filter or button in the advanced search. What is CINAHL. Click on the advanced search button and click on the EBP button to limit to only EBP type articles.
What is CINAHL. Click on the advanced search button and click on the EBP button to limit to only EBP type articles.
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The three major elements to consider when making decisions about patients and that require integration of these three major components.
The clinician’s clinical expertise, the patient’s preferences or values and the best evidence available.
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The way you would find a systematic review or meta-analysis in Pubmed
What is going to Pubmed's main page on the library's portal, conducting your search and then using the filters on the left side to limit to the publication type you would like
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A classification of quality of evidence and strength of recommendation system. It constitutes the basis for the development of clinical practice guidelines. It classifies the evidence into high, moderate, low or very low
What is GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system.
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The Boolean logic operator used for searching for a group of synonyms . A term to use to broaden your results telling the database that ANY of your search terms can be present in the resulting eg. Thermometry, thermometers, temperature, thermography
What is OR
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A database or site on the Internet which provides you with a simple way of searching for scholarly material, is free but to be able to see the full text of our subscriptions, one has to access through Northwell remote access portal
What is Google Scholar. It is an very good way to start searching for EBP material but remember it searches across the Web and one doesn't necessarily access peer review journals. It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Good for adjacency eg "hourly rounding"
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A powerful reference manager available for free download by calling the IT desk. Will be able to assist you with your bibliography by changing the style with one click. You can also ‘cite while you write’
What is Endnote or Endnote Web. Don't spend endless hours trying to format your citations.
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The CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is only a nursing database
What is False
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The best or highest evidence based study for a question on therapy or treatment
What is a Randomized Control Trial or a cohort or a case control or a case series. RCTs and controlled clinical trials help to answer treatment questions and diagnosis questions. If there aren’t any RCTS or controlled clinical trials move down the EBP pyramid for the next best option
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An EBP based journal out of Australia that publishes systematic reviews in nursing. Uses a collaborative approach to the evidence derived from a diverse range or sources. Indexed in Pubmed and CINAHL
JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports
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This is the study one would look for If your question is about prognosis or etiology. They are usually forward-looking or "prospective" studies, or planned in advance and carried out over a future period of time.
What is a cohort study. Cohort studies are observational and not as reliable as randomized controlled studies, since the two groups may differ in ways other than in the variable under study.
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A point of care database for evidence based clinical decision support. Integrated with Lexicomp. Includes images and linked to the EMR.
What is Uptodate. Access through the library's portal.
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A review in which specified and appropriate methods have been used to identify, appraise, and summarize studies addressing a defined question. (It can, but need not, involve meta-analysis).
What is a systematic review.
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A tool or clinical question or mnemonic would one use to formulate a search strategy by identifying the key concepts that need to be in the article
What is PICO - Population Intervention Comparison Outcome PICO helps you: clearly identify the problem, interventions, and measurable outcomes related to your patient; determine which keywords to use in your database search, and; formulate a searchable clinical foreground question.
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An evidence based study that thoroughly examines a number of valid studies on a topic and combines the results using accepted statistical methodology as if they were form one large study
What is a meta-analysis
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The site where you would go if the library didn't own this particular journal.
What is the library's online portal. Access the interlibrary form under the third tab on the left. Do not ever take out your credit card and pay for the journal. We can get everything for free
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The person who said "For us who nurse, our nursing is a thing which, unless we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it, we are going back
Who is Florence Nightingale
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