the most important mission of hospitals is to provide appropriate and high quality care for patients. different methods and models have been used to assess the quality of care. one conventional model used recently in many countries is the accreditation model which has been efficient in developing structural, process, and outcome standards. accreditation is a systematic process carried out based...

while many international organisations have independent evaluations, including the international monetary fund (imf) and world health organization (who), uniquely the world bank in its 2015 world development report sought to ascertain the potential biases that influence how its staff interpret evidence and influence policy. here, we describe the world bank’s study design, including experiments ...

recently, use of research, theory, evidence-based practice (ebp), and quality improvement (qi) has increased dramatically in the professional manuscripts and discourses of the health related literature. however, inadequate knowledge and inability to recognize the differences between these processes have led to uncertainty in some of these practices. elucidation of such processes is of paramount...

The idea of promoting evidence based medicine, understood as practicing according to the best evidence based on exhaustive and systematic reviews of all available data, is very convincing and difficult to contest rationally. This certainly does not mean that the exact type of evidence to take into consideration is indisputable. Thus, Maynard [2] recently accused leading spokesmen for the eviden...

Burns are a very real component of combat-related injuries, and infections are the leading cause of mortality in burn casualties. The prevention of infection in the burn casualty transitioning from the battlefield to definitive care provided at the burn center is critical in reducing overall morbidity and mortality. This review highlights evidence-based medicine recommendations using military a...

PURPOSE To discuss the methodological considerations of a standard and applicable randomized clinical trial (RCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a predefined strategy, we conducted systematic computerized search of the MEDLINE (1966 to 2011) and EMBASE (1980 to 2011) databases to identify all English language educational articles discussing the RCT methodological aspects. Full text versions of ...