Evidence practice study guide
Questions and approved answers.
EBP Movement - ✔✔✔Expects practitioners to make practice decisions about interventions
provided in light of the best scientific evidence available. It should not be based upon tradition,
authority.
Clinical State and Circumstances - ✔✔✔Is this appropriate for this client?
Assessment of the context
Steps in the Process - ✔✔✔1. Form clinical question
2. Search for best evidence to answer question
3. Critically appraise the evidence
4. Select an intervention based on critical appraisal of the evidence and integrating that appraisal
with:
*practitioner expertise
*awareness of the client's preferences, clinical
State and circumstances
5. Monitoring client's progress
How do you develop an evidence based practice process outlook? - ✔✔✔1. Critical Thinking:
just because there is a protocol, you can still question.
Step 1: Questions Formulation - ✔✔✔Use a question format involving the PICO element
P: population/disease (i.e. gender, age, ethnicity, with a certain disorder)
I: Intervention or Variable of Interest
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C: Comparison
O: Outcome
What is EBP? - ✔✔✔*A Process which includes:
*the most rigorous scientific evidence available.
*practitioner expertise-common sense and gut feeling
*client attributes, values, preferences and circumstances
*assessing if intervention is achieving desired outcomes
*evaluating alternative interventions
Implementing EBP - ✔✔✔Three interacting circles:
*research evidence
*client preferences and actions
*clinical state and circumstances
Practitioner expertise pulls everything together
Research Evidence - ✔✔✔not everything that is published is credible or valid.
Are the services effective?
Assessment of the context
Client Preferences and Actions - ✔✔✔Barriers
Client's preferences- get on their side
Sample Clinical Question - ✔✔✔For physically or sexually abused girls with PTSD, what is the
effect of therapy vs standard clinical management on behavioral outbursts
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