In the operating room, many clinicians will justify their practices by saying they’ve always done it that way, according to Lisa Spruce, RN, director of evidence-based perioperative practice at the ...

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...

Hospital leaders agree: Evidence-based care protocols to guide how care is delivered are becoming the new norm. Putting guidelines in place can improve patient safety, streamline methods of care, ...

Progress depends on the willingness to reassess long-held beliefs, prioritize patient-centered outcomes and ensure that modern care reflects what the science supports.

There is no denying that Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) have increasingly dominated the clinical landscape across the past 30 years. Originating from the early work of behavioral psychologists’ ...

Despite the investments in research and the growing body of empirical literature on a range of preparedness and response capabilities and functions, there has been no national-level, comprehensive ...

It can take the healthcare industry close to two decades to implement evidence-based care protocols. There are four reasons clinicians embrace new data at a “snail’s pace,” writes Kyle Jones, M.D., a ...