WHY A GUIDE TO SOCIAL work writing? Every profession has its unique characteristics, but common to all is a focus on clear, unambiguous prose. Because social work is both an academic discipline and a profession, we have set out to acknowledge and examine writing issues important to both. Also, because contemporary social work practice is increasingly evidencebased, collaboration between practit...

Evidence-based medicine aims to make clinical practice more scientific and empirically grounded in order to achieve safer, more consistent and costeffective care.1 It helps ensure that interventions are backed by evidence of sufficient quality to justify investment in implementation and scale-up. Since its introduction in the 1970s, the term ‘evidence-based intervention’ has moved from being an...

In February 2004, American Family Physician (AFP), the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice (JABFP), and the Journal of Family Practice (JFP) will simultaneously publish an article titled “Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT): A Patient-centered Approach to Grading Evidence in the Medical Literature.” The purpose of the article is to present the SORT system, which was created ...

The focal article (Briner & Rousseau, 2011) addresses at length the merits of systematic reviews for advancing evidencebased practice. In general, we are in agreement with the authors, but we identify one major omission of the focal article that is critical for advancing evidence-based industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology and management: the topic of publication bias. Publication bias exi...

The objective of this review is to provide an overview of the current analytical, clinical, and risk assessment status of cardiac troponin (cTn) high-sensitivity (hs) assays and on how to better understand their use in clinical practice. The introduction of hs-cTnI and hs-cTnT assays into clinical practice has enabled improved diagnostic accuracy using serial changes. However, there remains sub...

Persons (2013) has commented on my article (Eells, 2013) about revisiting the case formulation approach to psychotherapy research. I elaborate on her ideas by advocating for an evidencebased case formulation (EBCF) model of psychotherapy practice. The latter encourages clinician freedom of choice to select a case conceptualization and treatment plan, as long as those choices are empirically def...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has evolved over the last decade into what might be considered a mantra of the new millennium. Early on in this evolution, Yale University’s Alvan Feinstein, who was a founding father of modern clinical epidemiology, noted that the evidence-based approach to clinical care ‘ . . . has acquired the kind of sanctity often accorded to motherhood, home and the flag . . ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is described as ‘‘. . . the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine requires the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.’’ More recently, this definition has b...

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy 537 The article, “Occupational T h e r a p i s t s’ Pe rceptions of Ev i d e n c e Based Practice,” by Dubouloz, Eg a n , Vallerand, and von Zweck, in this month’s issue of T h e American Jo u rnal of Occupational T h e ra py (A J OT®), is p e rfect for kicking off a new commentary on evidencebased practice in occupational therapy. As Associate Ed i ...