OMG EBP!
The letters EBP.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
I summarize and analyze data using numerical tests.
Who are statistics?
Which type of study randomizes participants to either a treatment group or a control/placebo group?
What is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)?
Major barrier to Evidence Based Practice.
What is resistance to change?
("Chronic pain" AND "diabetes") AND adults
What are key terms OR search strategy?
Strengths and limitations of the study -risk or harm if study interventions are put into place
What is Evidence Appraisal?
In statistics, I am the average of something.
Who is the mean?
This type of study uses non-numerical approach (text, video, or audio) to understand the experience, opinions, and meaning of a phenomenon from the participants' or patient's perspective.
What is qualitative research?
Nurses often state this is a barrier to completing an Evidence Based Practice Project.
What is lack of time?
CINAHL, PubMed, and PsychINFO
What are databases?
This type of project needs approval from an Institutional Review Board or ethical committee.
What is research?
I describe the demographics of a sample and summarize study variables- means/standard deviations and frequencies/percentages
Who are descriptive statistics or summary statistics?
This study design is used quite often in epidemiology to study the natural development or progression of a disease in a population-recruits cases and controls as the sample.
What is a case-control study?
Nurses working in hospitals with ______ designation, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing, were more likely to report the adoption of evidence-based care at their institutions.
What is Magnet?
PubMed uses these types of terms
What are MeSH terms?
"The systematic, data-based monitoring and evaluation of organizational processes with the end goal of continuous improvement. The goal is internal application rather than external generalization."
What is quality improvement?
Historically, I have determined when something is statistically significant
Who is p-value?
This study design can use one of 15 different approaches to synthesize all the available literature on a particular topic to understand the current state of the science.
What is a literature review?
A way to overcome barriers to EBP.
What is keeping an open mind and making a professional commitment?
Criteria to determine appropriateness of an article for review
What is inclusion and exclusion criteria?
"A brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like the title, it enables persons interested in the document to retrieve it. . . .”
What is an abstract?
I apply advanced statistical procedures to summarize and estimate the treatment effects across RCTs
Who is a meta-analysis?
This study design synthesizes all the quantitative studies, such as RCTs, to examine data from a number of independent studies of the same subject, in order to determine overall trends in the evidence; is considered the highest level of evidence.
What is a meta-analysis?
Lack of research skill, negative attitudes, lack of admin support, and time constraints.
What are Barriers to EBP?
Annual rate of growth of nursing literature in Web of Science
What is 8-10%?