Systematic review

The lack of evidence-based policy making allows the three branches of government and the States to make policy decisions grounded in ideology rather than persuasive evidence. There are times when the government correctly chooses ideological policies without evidence and there are times when the government does not choose correctly with evidence. The full extent of how the lack of evidence-based policy making may not be known. However, there are times when the lack of evidence-based policy has as…

Psychologists are constantly striving to determine the best treatment for their patients. To do this, psychologists commonly work together to form the most effective treatment plans for patients. It is also common practice for researchers and psychologists to work towards a joint effort to form such plans as well. The article, Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology written by the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice (2006) talks about the method of Evidence-Based practice and…

1. EBM has been around for years. Why is EBM so hard to implemet? According to Mohammad and Salahshoor (2018) “Despite the emergence and development of evidence-based practice (EBP) in recent years, its adoption continues to be limited.” (p. 25). By use of used Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory, they were able to identify several factors that affect the adoption of Evidence based medicine, including individual innovation, attitude, knowledge, and the perception of evidence based medicine.…

Model Implementation of evidence-based practice to create change in the clinical arena is the challenging task for the clinicians and research expertise. In the context of the implementation of EBP, various ‘change models’ were innovated for systematic guidance to assist the clinicians with their expectation for the change align with their organization (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015, p.274). The author was in a position to chose the model to make a change in the knowledge and skills of…

psychological processes if they feel like their values and beliefs are misunderstood or disrespected. The article states that, “considerable evidence from many fields suggest that racial power differentials between clinicians and their patients, as well as systematic biases and implicit stereotypes based on race or ethnicity, contribute to the inequitable care that patients of color receive across health care services” (APA, 2006, p. 279-280). A patient’s preferences are an important…

“Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology”. In which the authors collected data from bibliographic databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, and Google Scholar) and used that data to perform a systematic review to find a correlation between mental disorders (specifically depression, anxiety, stress and self-esteem) and problematic smart phone use. The research design was a systemic review which lead to a meta-analysis…

Introduction: What is a systematic review? A systematic review is a paper that summarizes the results of available studies and provides information on the reliability of results and evidence by working to delimit bias (Schlosser, R., 2006). It may or may not make judgment on the value of this information for health care practice. To have a better understanding of what a systematic review is, I decided to look more closely at one myself. After considering my recent experience in the nursing lab…

article, “Systematic Review of Apraxia Treatments to Improve Occupational Performance Outcomes”, set out to evaluate serval of the currently published treatments for apraxia, in order to find which type of intervention is most effective on a patient’s occupational skills. The need for such a review stems from the fact that many apraxia studies lack a focus on occupational performance, such as ADL’s and IADL’s. After setting up the criteria for selecting the articles to be include in the review,…

as well as nurses who provided bedside care to these patients. Nursing research is critical to the nursing profession and is necessary for continuing advancements that promote optimal nursing care (Tingen and Burnett, 2009). Nursing research is a systematic approach used to examine phenomena important to nursing and nurses. Because nursing is a practice profession, it is important that clinical practice be based on scientific knowledge. Nursing research is aimed at affecting the direct provision…

evaluate the strength of evidence for each article was the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine – Levels of Evidence table obtained from the Center for Evidenced Based Medicine (2009). The search engines and databases searched in the literature review were chosen to optimize the literature search for high quality evidence. CINAHL (Current Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a bibliographic search database, which contains references to articles from over 2,900 journals as well as…