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Systematic review of the effects of care provided with and without diagnostic clinical prediction rules

Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 2017
Background Diagnostic clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are worthwhile if they improve patient outcomes or provide benefits such as reduced resource use, without harming patients.
Sharon L. Sanders, John Rathbone, Katy J. L. Bell, Paul P. Glasziou, Jenny A. Doust   +4 more
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Are these results trustworthy? A guide for reading the medical literature

Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2017
Physicians practicing evidence-based medicine need to be able to appraise a new study and determine whether the results warrant sufficient certainty to the level that they can be applied to patient care.
Fares Alahdab, Allison Morrow, Mouaz Alsawas, M Hassan Murad   +3 more
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Evidence-based practice

Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 1999
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a significant movement influencing the delivery of health care. This paper discusses why physiotherapists should care about EBP, what physiotherapists might do to become aligned with the EBP movement and some potential influences this may have on clinical research.
Kent, Peter, Keating, Jenny, Bernhardt, Julie, Carroll, Sara, Hill, Keith, McBurney, Helen, Jull, Gwen, Grimmer, Karen, Allison, Garry, Henderson, Kathryn   +9 more
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Strategies for improving the lives of US women aged 40 and above living with HIV/AIDS: an evidence map

Systematic Reviews, 2018
Background While in its early years the HIV epidemic affected primarily the male and the young, nowadays, the population living with HIV/AIDS is approximately 24% women, and its age composition has shifted towards older ages.
Gaelen P. Adam, Mengyang Di, Susan Cu-Uvin, Christopher Halladay, Bryant T. Smith, Suchitra Iyer, Thomas A. Trikalinos   +6 more
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Evidence-Based Practice and Organizational Development in Libraries [PDF]

, 2008
This article is written for a Festschrift for F. W. Lancaster, and it summarizes the author???s library school experiences as a student of Professor Lancaster and Professor Herbert Goldhor at the University of Illinois.
Russell, Keith W.
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An educational pathway and teaching materials for first aid training of children in sub-Saharan Africa based on the best available evidence

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background First aid training is a cost-effective way to decrease the burden of disease and injury in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Since evidence from Western countries has shown that children are able to learn first aid, first aid training ...
Emmy De Buck, Jorien Laermans, Anne-Catherine Vanhove, Kim Dockx, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Heike Geduld   +5 more
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Prescribable mHealth apps identified from an overview of systematic reviews

npj Digital Medicine, 2018
Mobile health apps aimed towards patients are an emerging field of mHealth. Their potential for improving self-management of chronic conditions is significant.
Oyungerel Byambasuren, Sharon Sanders, Elaine Beller, Paul Glasziou   +3 more
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Assessing the accuracy of machine-assisted abstract screening with DistillerAI: a user study

Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background Web applications that employ natural language processing technologies to support systematic reviewers during abstract screening have become more common.
Gerald Gartlehner, Gernot Wagner, Linda Lux, Lisa Affengruber, Andreea Dobrescu, Angela Kaminski-Hartenthaler, Meera Viswanathan   +6 more
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PROTOCOL: Friendly visiting by a volunteer for reducing loneliness and social isolation in older adults

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2020
Loneliness and social isolation are reaching epidemic proportions in both children and adults, despite the increasing connectedness in our twenty‐first century world.
Jorien Laermans, Hans Scheers, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Emmy De Buck   +3 more
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The challenges of communicating research evidence in practice: perspectives from UK health visitors and practice nurses [PDF]

, 2013
<p>Background: Health practitioners play a pivotal role in providing patients with up-to-date evidence and health information. Evidence-based practice and patient-centred care are transforming the delivery of healthcare in the UK.
A Berland, A Broom, A Kitson, A Kitson, A Kitson, AI Machin, AJ Wakefield, AL Kitson, BM Hagerty, C Landy, C McCabe, C Seale, CE Brown, CR Charlton, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, ECJ Carr, F Breuer, FA Stevenson, G Harvey, H McKenna, J Bensing, J Kivits, J Rycroft-Malone, J Rycroft-Malone, Jennifer E van Bekkum, K Parahoo, K Stoddart, KB Haskard Zolnierek, L Millard, M Bloor, M Hardey, M McMullan, M Petticrew, M Poltorak, M Sieger, MA Stewart, P French, PM Wilson, R Legard, RL Street, RM Bryar, S Ford, S Hilton, S Jacobs, S Mohammad, SA Redsell, Scottish Executive, Shona Hilton, VA Entwistle, YS Lincoln   +54 more
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