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Evidence-Based Practice EBP is one such methodology that helps interlinking the various scientifically proven for the welfare of an individual or the society.. Keywords: Research evi

How EBP Enable Healthcare Professionals to Provide Informed Decision

Dr Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, Pubrica sales@pubrica.com

In-Brief

Leaning to the side of science, everyone

in the modern world wants to stick with

the based and the proven evidence More

efforts by the researchers have been put

into the research and experiments to

vouch for the new practices and

discoveries Evidence-Based Practice

(EBP) is one such methodology that helps

interlinking the various scientifically

proven for the welfare of an individual or

the society

Keywords: Research evidence, purpose of

EBP, clinical decision-making, proven

scientific evidences, clinical experience,

randomized controlled trials

I INTRODUCTION

Evidence Based Practice (EBP)

enables the proper delivery of knowledge

and updates in the health field EBP can be

defined as the integrator that interlinks –

Clinical expertise, research evidence, and

data from the practice content and also

provides clinical literature review

However, the purpose of EBP is to assist

in clinical decision-making for better

treatment of the patients

The history of EBP starts in 1970

Before the EBP, the health professionals

mostly tended to rely on other experienced

health professionals Though the required

information is easily accessible and based,

there can be mistakes or prone to incorrect

leads pertaining to the health professionals'

age and memory Sometimes, the clinical

experience would even be biased based upon the varying past of the professionals

II REGULAR STEPS IN EBP Firstly the ‘need’ is assumed by considering the situations The various resources that are proven with scientific evidence are acquired Those resources must justify their answers with strong research work in the background

Lastly, the collected data are analyzed for relevance to the situation that the health professional undergoes

After all, with the data collected, situations are handled appropriately Furthermore, their results are also recorded for future studies

III FEATURE OF EBP Unlike the regular guidelines, instructions, recommendations, etc., EBP ensures better clinical practice EBP sounds like the randomized controlled trials where the treatments are investigated All the information required by the health

professionals can be collected without

much strain

IV NECESSITY OF EBP

Not every patients’ conditions would be

easily treatable Depending upon the

scenarios the treatments are altered to

ensure the stability of the patients

Therefore, it is always important to

understand the scientific advantages of

proven scientific evidence

Health professionals thought

process helps the most in acquiring the

knowledge from the proven scientific

evidences Critical thinking on the

situations by introspecting - why this

happens? how does this happen? what

could be the way to get rid of this? In the

end, with the situation pushing them, they

start collecting the information from

various sources and start relating to the

situation

For example, we shall consider a

situation where the patient is undergoing

bed rest after surviving a heart attack Bed

rest after the heart attack is the

recommended one based upon the previous

knowledge of the clinical experts citing the

reason that the heart requires more rest and

must be kept away from emotional

imbalance But the randomized controlled

trials show that bed rest could make

thromboembolism which is a dangerous

condition that could block the blood flow

via blood vessels

V QUALITY OF THE RESEARCH

PUBLICATION

There are plenty of sources available these

days and the most exceptional one is the

Internet where we collect more data such

articles, review chapters, etc But the

quality of the content containing the

relevant information is the most important

thing to be considered before proceeding

to utilize the data The collected data must

ensure validity, compliance, aftermath

effects

VI ADVANTAGES &

DISADVANTAGES OF EBP Evidence-Based Practices possess their advantages EBP ensures the quality of information that is provided to the professionals The professionals can provide the appropriate treatment and balance the other critical conditions of the patients The decisions made on the evidence-based medicine can be believed with more confidence

Though EBP promises to be the better reliable method while comparing with others, there also exist certain disadvantages within it EBP needs more accurate information and proven evidence

Considering the unexpected situations with patients, a professional may not start the research work to tackle the issues immediately

VII CRITICISMS OF EBP

Though the qualitative research is the most welcomed type of research EBP is criticized for relying more upon quantitative research Many professionals around the globe question the definitions

of the term – Evidence in Evidence-Based Practice They argue that, based upon the perception towards the problem, the evidence can be both correct as well as incorrect Furthermore, clinical experience

is also given an equal part in creating the evidence, thus questioning the certainty and biasness

VIII CONCLUSION

Creating the evidence and connecting them

to the appropriate situations is not a one-day matter There involved a lot of difficulties in experimentation, collection

of data from various sources, and bringing them to the right situation at right time Apart from all, it keeps on updating itself based on the new situations that arise after new cases

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