Background and aims: Managers are responsible for their decisions and organizational performance. Evidence-based practice (EBP) can improve decision effectiveness and secure organization against potential risks. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between managers personality type and using evidencebased practice approach. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was done...

In clinical research, there has been an increasing need to titrate ethical, legal and insurance requirements to the type of study, so that higher-risk research receives necessary and appropriate detailed attention, while low-risk studies can proceed more rapidly. Spontaneous Medically Advantageous Research Trials (SMART) are non-profit studies that carry minimal or no risk to patients. This typ...

Innovation in teaching ensures that education remains fit for purpose in a changing world. The model of pedagogic frailty proposes that educators may perceive innovation as risky, which may inhibit innovation, and thus reduce opportunities to update learning experiences. Within psychology, psychological literacy (the skills, knowledge and attributes acquired as outcomes of studying psychology) ...

Are clinical guidelines valid tools for evidencebased practice? The quality of guidelines varies widely, and they should be assessed on a case-bycase basis. This commentary points to some leading initiatives and resources for excellence in and access to guidelines. Major assessments of guidelines respectively published in peer-reviewed journals and issued by specialty societies raised serious c...

By the year 2000, the laryngeal mask will have been used in approximately 100 million patients worldwide. Currently, at least 30% of anaesthetised patients in the UK [1] and 20% of patients in the USA [2] are managed using the laryngeal mask. The popularity of the device stems from its ease of use, its role in the difficult airway and the advantages it offers over the face mask and tracheal tub...

The objective of this and other systematic reviews by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) is to provide the biomedical research and clinical practice communities with current knowledge about evidence supporting various interventions used in the management of developmental disabilities. "Systematic, evidencebased reviews are innovative in their comprehensi...

We live a time when it is easier to question the value of statins to fight cholesterol or the efficacy of vaccination and replace these treatments with homeopathic substances that lack any demonstrated therapeutic effect, promoting BILIEF to the category of PSEUDO-SCIENCE, than rely on evidencebased facts supported by the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. These are challenging times for clinicians and we need...

In this paper we motivate the need for a corpus for the development and testing of summarisation systems for evidencebased medicine. We describe the corpus which we are currently creating, and show its applicability by evaluating several simple query-based summarisation techniques using a small fragment of the corpus.

We live a time when it is easier to question the value of statins to fight cholesterol or the efficacy of vaccination and replace these treatments with homeopathic substances that lack any demonstrated therapeutic effect, promoting BILIEF to the category of PSEUDO-SCIENCE, than rely on evidencebased facts supported by the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. These are challenging times for clinicians and we need...

The long-awaited results of phase I (RNs in hospitals) of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s (NCSBN) multisite, randomized, controlled Transition to Practice study have been released (Spector et al., 2015). This large, national study is the only transition-to-practice research that randomly assigned sites to a control group (they used their existing onboarding strategies) or to N...