This straightforward guide to evidence-based practice helps you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge practice that is not underpinned by research and evaluate if interventions are working.
Providing a basic introduction to both quantitative and qualitative research, Debra Evans explores how to find out ‘what works best’, what might do harm, the impact of something and what requires more research. Readers will also learn the basic rules used in study design and statistics presented in research articles and systematic reviews. Each simply written chapter includes relevant theory, diagrams and tables, case studies, exercises, boxed summaries and further reading.
Packed with examples from practice across the nursing fields and at different levels, this book is essential for nurses – both student and qualified – who want to increase their confidence when it comes to research appraisal.
Author(s): Debra Evans
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 190
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction to research and evidence based practice
Step 1: Pose a focused research question
2 How do you put together a good focused research question?
Step 2: Search for the evidence
3 How do you search for evidence to answer that question?
Step 3: Critically appraise the evidence
4 When you have found some evidence how do you know if it’s any good?
5 Let’s talk about the characteristics of a quantitative design – the randomised controlled trial
6 Some non-randomised quantitative designs – quasi experiments, cohort studies and case-control studies
7 What are effect measures for dichotomous outcomes?
8 What are effect measures for continuous outcomes?
9 How do you critically appraise quantitative evidence such as RCTs?
10 Let’s talk about characteristics of some qualitative designs – phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory
11 How do you critically appraise qualitative evidence?
Step 4: Making a decision to implement the evidence
12 Why we need systematic reviews and initiatives like the Cochrane Library
13 Clinical guidelines and implementation of EBP
14 Your role in all of this?
Index
