Evidence-Based Practices in Medicine

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer presents an analysis of the implementation of evidence-based practice in a hospital setting. The writer provides an overview of evidence-based practice and its use in the hospital setting, to decide whether evidence-based practice is beneficial to the hospital setting or if another method of service might be equally acceptable. The writer proposes that evidenced-based practice is a mainstay of health and should be adopted by all healthcare professionals to provide the best possible outcome of healthcare.

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Abstract
Literature Review
Evidence-Based Practice - Overview
Opposition to Evidence Based Medicine
How to Practice Evidence-Based Medicine
Will Evidence-Based Medicine Survive?
Conclusions/Discussion of Literature Review

From the Paper:

"However, it is important to sort out the good information from the bad, and that can happen when doctor adopt the practice involving evidence-based medicine. It is important note Rosenberg & Donald, that doctors not only gather or collect information but also appraise it to determine its relationship or the relevance this information has to the client or patient the physician plans to treat. The doctor is the person in the chain of healthcare that has the ability to help analyze information collected to assert which evidence proves it is based on best practices and which processes or evidence lack sustenance or verifiable results.
"There are according to the researchers multiple tables that one can use for evaluating articles that are candidates for providing evidence based material. Sometimes articles may be useful for assisting a single patient; however, if nothing else has worked, then this single article has much potential for changing the way people live."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Allyn, D.E. (2007). Primum non nocere (First, Do No Harm): Prayer, culture, and evidence-based practice. Practice Nursing eJournal 7(2) Medscape Medicine, Retrieved November 23, 2007: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561760
• Arocha, J.F. & Patel, V.L. (1995) Novice diagnostic reasoning in medicine: Accounting for evidence. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4(4): 335.
• Donald, A. (2002). Evidence-based medicine: Key Concepts. Medscape General Medicine, 4(2). Retrieved November 23, 2007: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle430709
• Donald, A. (2003). How to practice evidence-based medicine, Medscape General Medicine, 5(1): Retrieved November 22, 2007: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/430709
• Gibbs, L. & Gambrill, E. (2002). Evidence-based practice: Counterarguments to objections. Research on Social Work Practice, 12(1): 147.

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