EBP in mental healthcare institutions

1. Musa Abu Sbeih
Head of Nursing Affairs
Evidence Based Pratice at Ibn
Sina Hospital

2. Six Aims of Quality
1. Safe – avoids injuries from care
2. Effective – provides care based on scientific
knowledge to all who could benefit and
avoids services not likely to help
3. Patient-centered – respectful and
responsive to patient preferences, needs,
values; includes patient values in clinical
decision making

3. Six Aims of Quality
4. Timely – reduces waits and sometimes
harmful delays for those who receive and
give care
5. Efficient – avoids waste, including waste of
equipment, supplies, ideas and energy
6. Equitable – care does not vary in quality due
to personal characteristics

4. Achieving Aims and Rules
Requires
 News ways of delivering care
 Effective use of information technology (IT)
 Managing the clinical knowledge, skills, and
deployment of the workforce
 Effective teams and coordination of care
across patient conditions, services and
settings
 Improvements in how quality is measured

5. Sources of Evidence for Healthcare
Practice
 Tradition and Authority
 Clinical Experience, Trial and Error and
Intuition
 Logical Reasoning
 Assembled information
 Disciplined Research

6. Research Utilization Versus
Evidence-Based Practice
 Research utilization (RU)
The use of study findings in a practical
application unrelated to the original research
 Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Basing clinical decisions on best possible
evidence, typically high-quality research

7. Process of Research Utilization
1. Determining the research knowledge
ready for use in practice
2. Persuading healthcare professionals to
use this knowledge
3. Making a decision to use the
knowledge in practice
4. Implementing the knowledge to change
practice
5. Determining the outcomes from making
the research-based change in practice

8. Questions??