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Unit 2: Developing a practice-based question

Key steps to evidence based practice

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Step 5
Evaluate and reflect

 

Step 4
Implement the evidence

 
   

Step 3
Critically appraise the evidence

   
 

Step 2
Find the evidence

     

Step 1
Review the practice and ask the question

   

Key Steps to Evidence-based practice (CASP, 2002)

Here are the five steps to evidence based practice.  These are taken from the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme funded by the NHS. We will be concentrating on step 1, particularly on how to develop an appropriate focused question and pointing you in the direction of sources of evidence to match your question. 

In step 2, the sort of evidence we want you to find as part of this module is primary research evidence.  You are looking for this to build up a literature review which in turn is presented as a critically appraised body of evidence to examine your question.  In other words, did you find strong, good evidence in the form of six primary pieces of research, to answer your practice based question or is additional or better quality research required?

Step 3, the appraisal process - SHLS use the appraisal framework in the ‘Blue Book’, ‘Accessing and Assessing Research for Evidence-based Practice’). Stages 4 and 5 are up to you in practice! 

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SMILE - Developing a practice based question by Jamie Frankis, Lesley Price, Ima Jackson SHLS and modified by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License