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What is Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that combines three elements: (1) the best evidence available (from studies and data found in published medical literature); (2) the practitioner's clinical expertise (acquired through education and clinical experience); (3) the patient's preferences (communicated by patient to clinician).

EBP Overview/Tutorials

The Seven Steps of Evidence-Based Practice
This article from AJN provides a brief overview of the multi-step EBP process.
An Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
This self-paced, interactive tutorial will take you through the complete EBP process, emphasizing the elements of a well-built clinical question and the key issues that help determine the validity of evidence. This program was developed by the Medical Center Library at Duke University and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice
This tutorial was created by the National Library of Medicine to help clinicians including nurses and allied health professionals develop a clinical question using the PICO framework and efficiently find relevant biomedical literature using PubMed. The tutorial was designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes.