the aim of this study was to determine the effect of a school- based educational program regarding hiv/aids and the knowledge held by the high school students. this quasi-experimental study was conducted with 230 high school students (grade 10-12 female, male). teaching aids used for this intervention was a combination of three methods including lectures, showing an educational movie and pamphl...

background: evidence-based medicine (ebm) is a current practice in medicine to produce clinical practice guidelines from well-designed, randomized, controlled trials. we studied knowledge, attitude, and practice of ebm of neurologists who participated in the iranian congress of neurology. methods: a self-administered anonymous questionnaire was distributed and filled by neurologists. results: a...

introduction: evidence based medicine (ebm) is current tool in medicine to produce clinical practice guidelines from well-designed, randomized, controlled trials.  we studied knowledge, attitude and practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) of neurologist participated in the iranian congress of neurology. methods: a self administered anonymous questionnaire had been distributed and filled by ne...

health systems across the world are concerned with the quality and safety of patient care. this includes investing in research and development to progress advances in the treatment and management of individuals and healthcare organisations. the concept of evidence- based healthcare has gained increasing currency over the last two decades; yet questions persist about the time it takes for new re...

conclusions knowledge and attitude of young physicians were more based on ebm compare to old physicians. a significant difference in knowledge mean score of physician shows that the ebm is still new in iran, the future physician’s critical need to learn ebm and necessity of entering emb at all medical levels. results of the 120 questionnaires we have sent, 94 (78.3%) were answered. 56.6% were u...

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...

how best to achieve the translation of research evidence into routine policy and practice remains an enduring challenge in health systems across the world. the complexities associated with changing behaviour at an individual, team, organizational and system level have led many academics to conclude that tailored, multifaceted strategies provide the most effective approach to knowledge translati...

conclusions the present study showed that nursing students have not a high mean score in the three subscales of knowledge, attitude and intention to implement ebp. it is essential for faculties and nurse managers not only to focus on education of ebp, but also to support nurses and nursing students to implement it in the process patient care. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study,...