Alison L. Kitson
BACKGROUND: Despite over 40 years' work on general systems theory, informed by critical social science, there is a mismatch between the theories used to explain and influence clinical practice in nursing and the way in which transferring new knowledge into practice is articulated. DATA SOURCES: The ...
Eve Purdy, Brent Thoma, Joseph Bednarczyk, David Migneault et al.
UNLABELLED: Introduction Online educational resources (OERs) are increasingly available for emergency medicine (EM) education. This study describes and compares the use of free OERs by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residents and program directors (PDs) and investi...
Vicki S. Conn, Pamela S. Cooper, Todd Ruppar, Cynthia L. Russell
PURPOSE: Precisely described interventions in nursing research reports are essential as a foundation for nursing practice and to facilitate future research. The purpose of this project was to characterize the intervention descriptions in nursing intervention research reports. DESIGN AND METHODS: Qua...
Anna Bergström, Sarah Skeen, Dương Minh Đức, Elmer Zelaya Blandón et al.
BACKGROUND: The gap between what is known and what is practiced results in health service users not benefitting from advances in healthcare, and in unnecessary costs. A supportive context is considered a key element for successful implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP). There were no tools...
James Trostle, Jonathon Simon
As governments and other donors renew their support for research scientists in less developed countries, it becomes important to consider new questions about the process of funding scientific research and scientific researchers. This paper argues that research capacity building is a development goal...
Nicolette Caccia, Amy Nakajima, Nancy Kent
Competency-based medical education (CBME) is a new educational paradigm that will enable the medical education community to meet societal, patient, and learner needs of the 21st century. CBME offers a renewed commitment to both clinical and educational outcomes, a new focus on assessment and develop...
Jeffrey M. Taekman, Gene Hobbs, Linda D. Barber, Barbara G. Phillips‐Bute et al.
In Brief Training of health care research personnel is acritical component of quality assurance in clinical trials. Interactivity (such as simulation) is desirable compared with traditional methods of teaching. We hypothesized that the addition of an interactive simulation exercise to standard train...
M. A. Matin, Mohammad AW Khan
Background: Thesis work is an integral part of postgraduate medical education. It serves as the first stepping stone into scientific writing. But during research work, students and supervisors face various prob-lems. A number of research works has been conducted in different parts of the world on th...
Matt Oxman, Laurence Habib, Gro Jamtvedt, Bente Kalsnes et al.
Healthcare students and professionals, as well as patients and everyone else, are exposed to countless health claims—particularly claims about the effects of interventions—spreading further and faster than ever, via the Internet. Many of the claims are unreliable, such as those that conflate correla...
Domhnall MacAuley, E. McCrum, Conor Brown
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the READER model for critical reading by comparing it with a free appraisal, and to explore what factors influence different components of the model. DESIGN: A randomised controlled trial in which two groups of general practitioners assessed three papers from the general pract...
Schaafsma Holly, Holly Laasanen, Jasna Twynstra, Jamie A. Seabrook
Despite the widespread use of statistical techniques in quantitative research, methodological flaws and inadequate statistical reporting persist. The objective of this study is to evaluate the quality of statistical reporting and procedures in all original, quantitative articles published in the Can...
O. L. Wade, H. Hood
The way in which data on the prescribing of drugs by doctors in Northern Ireland has been collected and analysed with the aid of electronic data proces sing equipment which was first installed in 1966 has been described by Wade and Hood (1972). The present paper describes changes in Northern Ireland...
Andreas Eriksen
There is widespread agreement that the art/science dichotomy is obsolete; professional practice must accommodate both experience-based judgment and evidence-based tools. However, there is little agreement on what this reconciliation entails, partly because we lack a conceptualization of the professi...
Jeremy Grimshaw, Liz Shirran, Ruth Thomas, G Mowatt et al.
This chapter contains section titled: Methods Results Discussion Acknowledgements References Appendix 4.1 Appendix 4.2 Appendix 4.3
Anna Curley, Henry L. Halliday