Today’s widespread access to online health information is both a benefit and a challenge for physicians. While trustworthy websites and social media accounts can help educate patients about diseases ...

Solid evidence is often missing from the practice guidelines used by obstetrician-gynecologists across the U.S., a new study shows. Less than a third of the recommendations from the American College ...

Practicing evidence-based medicine should lead to improved patient outcomes. McCormack and Elwyn point out that the outcomes may not be lower disease rates or longer life if the patient chooses not to ...

To significantly impact the improvement of quality in healthcare, one needs to apply evidence-based practice (EBP). Without EBP, healthcare providers are at risk for variances in care that could ...

Post by Bryan G. Cook, University of Hawaii at Manoa A few internet searches (conducted on May 23, 2015) hint at the ubiquity of evidence-based reforms in contemporary education: Searches of “evidence ...

Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

There is no denying that Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) have increasingly dominated the clinical landscape across the past 30 years. Originating from the early work of behavioral psychologists’ ...

Evidence-based practice is held as the gold standard in patient care, yet research suggests it takes hospitals and clinics about 17 years to adopt a practice or treatment after the first systematic ...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing education underpins the integration of robust research evidence, clinical expertise and patient perspectives into daily clinical decisions. This approach is ...