NURSING 712 / Evidence-Based Health Care

3 unit(s)

D. Ciliska, J. Yost

Evidence-based health care (EBHC) is the integration of best research evidence with patient preferences, clinician skills and available resources when making health care decisions. It involves the definition of questions that allow clear answers, the efficient searching for the best information to answer the question, the critical appraisal of the evidence to determine its strength, the extraction of the clinical/management/education/policy message, and the dissemination and utilization in health care decision-making.