Literature Synthesis

Literature Synthesis

Abstract

Evidence-Based Practice is a methodology that assists therapists to ensure good professional practice. Physical therapists should identify the best ways of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis and select the most effective interventions to clinical outcomes of interest. This is essential especially when considering the impact of diseases or health conditions of people's lives, both in the involvement of organs and systems body, difficulties in the activities and tasks of everyday life, as the disadvantages in social participation. It is therefore vital that vocational training and clinical practice is provided and physiotherapists are trained to work within this methodology. This paper will address the concepts and definitions of evidence-based practice, the challenges to be faced in the area of ??physical therapy and the possible solutions. The formulation of the clinical question, the search, selection, critical analysis of the literature and the quality of evidence to answer the clinical question will also be discussed. There are also suggested some individual requirements to incorporate the methodology of evidence-based practice in everyday physiotherapists (Weisz & Kazdin, 2010).

Introduction

Healthcare organizations are increasing the use of evidence based practices in order to provide patients the best care possible. Although the use of EBP is still in its infancy, it has developed quite an extent and is now also being in outpatient clinics. The use of EBP practices in outpatient clinics is slightly different because the patients spend a few hours for treatment before they are discharged. The PICO model is a technique used by in order to answer questions in evidence based practices. It stands for people, intervention, comparison and outcomes.

The knowledge is in full state of development and improvement in modern society, and this implies the possibility of finding practices and attitudes related to recent scientific findings. In this context of urgent adoption of measures to minimize the gap between the scientific and healthcare practice, evidence-based practices are being used extensively (McHugh & Barlow, 2010, 73).

Methods

The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is defined as the use of best available evidence in making clinical decisions in healthcare. Nursing is a possibility in decision making, in practice data guided by scientific research. This data comes from various sources of information, such as databases available online including scientific journals. Thus, evidence-based practice has a key role, since it aims to establish criteria that systematize and organize such data for their practical implementation. Accordingly, there is an understanding from historical context and conceptual movement of EBP. Besides conducting a systematic search of databases in the scientific literature to identify the best evidence available (Straus, 2005).

By definition, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) comprises “the conscious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence for decision making about the care of individual patients”. It comprises a process of individual clinical expertise with the clinical findings generated by existing systematic research and the principles of clinical epidemiology (Guyatt, Rennie & Hayward, 2002).

Elements of Evidence-Based Practice are made ??by clinical techniques and decision making. Access to scientific information and analysis of the validity of this information, is important ...