Fundamental of Evidence-based Practice in Health and Social Care

Fundamental of
Evidence-based practice
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
P1 The purpose and process of conducting research enabling evidence-based practice in health
and social care.............................................................................................................................3
P2 Explain the skills and qualities and conduct a literature review in health and social care...5
P3 Conduct a literature review using range of sources .............................................................6
P4 Explain results of literature research .....................................................................................8
Conclusion .....................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
In accordance to studies evidence-based practice is a process of combining of research
evidence with patient values and clinical expertise which is applied by practitioners to bring
positive patient outcome,in other words evidence- based practice is defined as a good quality
decisions which are based on critical thinking as well as available finest evidence. There are
three fundamental of medical decision making for evidence-based practice, they are mentioned
below;
 There are best evidence which are commonly used in clinically research which activities
have been using sound methodology.
 Clinical expertise are those clinicians which are known by their professions, clinical
skills and education, experience.
 There are essential preferences of patient values which includes expectations and
concerns and every patient brings these preferences to a clinical encounter.
Task 1
P1 The purpose and process of conducting research enabling evidence-based practice in health
and social care.
Evidence-based practice is basic idea of good quality decisions which are usually based
on best evidence available or this process is a problem – based learning , and its concepts are
applied to health sciences, thus this involves;
 All converted information must be focused on questions
 Evaluating all evidences for clinical utility and validity.
 The performance of evidence is estimated in clinical application.
 Each band every outcomes are applied in clinical application.
Evidence- based on health care this is a process of evaluating proved evidence, implementing,
and developing policies therefore these impacts on health in a positive manner (Desmet and
Fokkinga., 2020).
Advantages of EBP in healthcare organization are;
Evidence-based practice applications brings a positive patient outcome which reduces demand
of healthcare resources, due to this reason healthcare organisations could cut down their
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