Evidence-Based Practice

 Evidence-based practice is used across the professions.

It's a way of basing your professional decisions on relevant literature, in combination with professional expertise and the preferences/values of your client or patient. Here's Why we need evidence-based health care.

This guide has been adapted from content by Duke University Medical Center Library

Use this Guide to understand:

•  how to form a research question               

• how to search for relevant evidence

• how to appraise what you find

• how to apply the evidence to your practice

• how to evaluate the success of the practice