Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Practice

Fundamentals of Evidence-
Based Practice

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Importance of evidence based practices in Health & Social Care
• Purpose and Process of conducting evidence based practice in Health & Social Care
• Skills and qualities which are required to conduct a literature review
• Analysis of own skills and knowledge in being able to conduct literature review
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Evidence based practice is an essential concept that refer to purposeful use of the best and
latest evidence in making the most effective and important decisions about patient and health
care. It can be a problem solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the
best evidence from studies, research and patient care information with clinician expertise and
patient preferences and values. EBP is the integration of clinical expertise, patient value and
the best research evidence in to the decision making process fro health care. Evidence based
practice is important for applying clinical care which is based on cultural tradition. The aims
and objectives of EBP is provide the high quality and cot effective health services to the
clients so that they can feel satisfaction

Importance of evidence based practice
• In Health and Social care sector, EBP is important because the main objective of it to offer
the most effective care that is available with the motive of improving patient outcomes. The
importance of evidence based practice is as following:
• To provide effective care
• Reduce cost of patient care

Purpose and process of conducting evidence based
practice
• Purpose of evidence based practice- the main objective of EBP is to insure that clinical
recitation is depend on stable information and patients get advantages in term of outputs.
Information based practice seeks to regenerate exercise as usual with recitation target-
hunting by religious result destined investigation, ideally irregular pressurized trials. The
purpose of EBP is to provide good quality and cost effective health services, to increase
satisfaction between patients and help in maximizing the level of confidence in decision
making.

Skills and qualities which are required to conduct
literature review
• Literature review is basically a discussion of scholarly articles relevant to a specific topic of
issues. It can be a survey books, area of research, theory and by so doing which provides a
description, summary and critical evaluation of the work in context to the research issue
being find out and investigate. There are different kind of skills which are required to
conduct a literature review in health and social care sector, some of them are as mentioned
below:
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills