Evidence-Based Practice
The integration of clinical expertise, patient/client values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient/client care.
EBP Pyramid of Evidence by Study Design
EBP Resources
- EBP TutorialThis tutorial created by Duke University Medical Library and the UNC Health Sciences Library will walk you through a basic introduction to EBP.
Finding Systematic Reviews
- Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsThe Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based ReportsSearch comprehensive, science-based information on common costly medical conditions and new health care technologies and strategies.
- California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child WelfareThe CEBC is a critical tool for identifying, selecting, and implementing evidence-based child welfare practices that will improve child safety, increase permanency, increase family and community stability, and promote child and family well-being.
- The Campbell CollaborationThe Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.
- Social Programs that WorkThis site seeks to identify those social programs shown in rigorous studies to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants and/or society, so that they can be deployed to help solve social problems.
- EPPI Centre Evidence LibraryThe EPPI-Centre conducts systematic reviews of research evidence across a range of different topic areas and provides support for others who are undertaking systematic reviews or using research evidence.
- Research in PracticeBrowse or search EBP publications by the Social Justice programme at The Dartington Hall Trust.