Evidence-Based Practice

Clinical Evidence
International source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions. Clinical Evidence summarises the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions.

Effective Health Care bulletins
Based on systematic reviews and synthesis of research on the clinical effect, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of health service interventions. Carried out by a research team using established methodological guidelines, with advice from expert consultants for each topic.

Evidence-Based Nursing
A quarterly journal designed to alert practising nurses to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment, diagnosis, aetiology, and prognosis. Evidence-Based Nursing selects and examines every aspect of the very best international nursing research.

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
NICE is part of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, and its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current “best practice”.

The Cochrane Collaboration
Prepares, maintains and promotes the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. Searchable database of systematic reviews.
Cochrane Wounds Group Website.

The Joanna Briggs Institute
Evaluation of evidence derived from a diverse range of sources, including experience, expertise and all forms of rigorous research, and the translation, transfer and utilisation of the “best available” evidence into health care practice.

Woundpedia
The concept of Evidence Informed Practice presents important background for the development of Wound Care as a clinical specialty. WoundPedia brings this life through a user-friendly, well-presented, regularly updated, web resource.