Resources for Getting Evidence into Practice

Other Good EBP Resources and Tools

Agency for Healthcare Quality - Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care—not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality—Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043).

Experts in the field reviewed the literature, and their contributions are grouped into these sections: Patient Safety and Quality / Evidence-based Practice / Patient-centered Care / Working Conditions—Work Environment / Critical Opportunities for Patient Safety and Quality / Tools"

Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) Collaboration - International Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation

Centre for Health Evidence - How to Use a Clinical Practice Guideline

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) -
Screening questions/checklists developed to help criticaly appraise resources.

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology -

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. Key strategies to address prevention of HAC-free full text

Netting the Evidence -
A comprehensive collection of international EBP resources.

University of Nottingham - Learning Objects and tutorials for learning about evidence based practice

University of Washington - Health Links -
A portal to EBP resources.