The document outlines the six aims of quality in healthcare: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care. It states that achieving these aims requires new models of care delivery, effective use of information technology, management of clinical workforce skills, effective team coordination, and improved quality measurement. The document also distinguishes between research utilization, which is applying research findings without relating to the original study, and evidence-based practice, which bases clinical decisions on the best available research evidence. It provides the five step process of research utilization as determining research ready for use, persuading professionals, deciding to use it, implementing the change, and determining outcomes.

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??