Clinical experience as evidence in evidence-based practice

Clinical experience as evidence in evidence-based practice.

BACKGROUND This paper's starting point is the recognition (descriptive not normative) that, for the vast majority of day-to-day clinical decision-making situations, the 'evidence' for decision-making is experiential knowledge. Moreover, reliance on this knowledge base means that nurses must use cognitive shortcuts or heuristics for handling information when making decisions. These heuristics en...

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Correspondence: Carl Thompson, Centre for Evidence Based Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] THOMPSON C. (2003) Journal of Advanced Nursing 43(3), 230–237 Clinical experience as evidence in evidence-based practice Background. This paper’s starting point is the recognition (descriptive not normative) that, for the vast majority o...

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