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79 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,378 Health Sciences Research and Education papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • While further research is warranted, this pilot study suggests that the addition of supervisor delivered supplemental structured learning modules increase the EBP confidence for graduate student clinicians, which has potential to facilitate novice clinicians use of EBPs within real-world clinical care.

    Improving Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Student Confidence in Evidence-Based Practice · 2026 · DOI

  • 2 This model posits reliance on external research evidence (a central tenet of EBP, which is absent from QI models) and continuous monitoring for improvement and sustainability (a central tenet of QI, which is lacking in EBP).

    The Mountain Model for Evidence-Based Practice Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • This cohort is limited by its single-site nature. Additionally, the coding process, using a single faculty member to adjudicate the work of the primary reviewers, may have introduced bias. The impact of the internal EBM curriculum, the didactic curriculum provided, and the local patient population all likely affected the types of EBM queries the residents submitted. That the submissions included only a sample of the patients seen by the residents is another limitation; the residents may only have recorded a certain type of inquiry that they individually deemed appropriate for a PBL log. Another study limitation is that the only demographic information collected for residents was sex and PGY. It is possible that other demographic factors, such as age or prior experience, may have influenced the types of questions residents recorded in their logs. Additionally, residents may have been searching for “just-in-time information” rather than for best evidence/best practice. This limitation may be most pronounced when considering logs covering topics such as procedures. Some observed trends may not be externally valid. For example, “Drugs and Chemical Classes” was among the most highly represented sub-categories present in the patient logs. Residents may have used EBM practices to ask questions about this competency because toxicology-related issues Volume 27, No.

    Evidence-based Medicine Questions Logged by Emergency Medicine Residents On Shift in Relation to American Board of Emergency Medicine Content Areas · 2026 · DOI

  • Case-based learning (CBL) has been found effective in facilitating transfer of knowledge and skills in various fields; however, its utilisation to teach EBP to SLP students is understudied.

    Using case‐based learning to teach evidence‐based practice: A pilot study · 2024 · DOI

  • The newest testing instrument, the ACE tool, which is a 15-question true/false exam, has not been directly compared to the more established Fresno test, which is composed of 12 in-depth short-answer questions.

    Comparison of two validated evidence‐based medicine assessments: Do they correlate? · 2022 · DOI

  • Beck (2016) defined a program of research as “a sustained, systematically planned series of studies addressing a particular gap in the knowledge base of a discipline that is knowledge driven and not method limited” (p.

    Launching a Successful Program of Research in Nursing Education · 2022 · DOI

  • However, journal clubs are underutilized in nursing education, and little is known about the impact of extracurricular, student-led journal clubs on EBP implementation among baccalaureate nursing students.

    Impact of an extracurricular, student-led journal club on evidence-based practice among baccalaureate nursing students · 2020 · DOI

  • It has been acknowledged that little is known about the impact of general practice (GP) appraisal on clinical and professional practice, as may be demonstrated by identifiable or 'hard' outcomes, and further, that the way in which appraisal informs professional development is unclear.

    The benefits of appraisal: a critical (re)view of the literature · 2016 · DOI

  • Abstract Objectives Public health nurse (PHN) perceptions of using standardized care plans to translate evidence-based guidelines into family home visiting practice have not been examined.

    The perceptions of public health nurses on using standardized care plans to translate evidence-based guidelines into family home visiting practice · 2016 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Professional standards for nurse educator practice stress the importance of EBTP; however, the use of evidence by faculty in curriculum design, evaluation and educational measurement, and program development has not been reported.

    Evidence-Based Teaching Practice in Nursing Education: Faculty Perspectives and Practices · 2015 · DOI

  • We provide evidence of the lack of evidence generation for three specific minority groups and suggest that the epistemological foundations of an evidence-based strategy be revised to include measures of quality that reflect a connectedness not only between the researchers and the affected stakeholders (patient population, service providers, etc.

    Tainting by numbers – how the disadvantaged become invisible within evidence-based medicine · 2014 · DOI

  • Originality/value Although Sure Start Children's Centres are one of the main sites for delivering evidence‐based interventions to improve outcomes for young children and families in the UK, and despite Government announcements promoting the use of evidence‐based practice in these settings, little is known about the knowledge and interpretation of managers on this issue or the difficulties of translating ideas into practice on the ground.

    “It sounds good but … ”: Children's Centre managers' views of evidence‐based practice · 2013 · DOI

  • Educational interventions specifically designed to teach TKM practitioners evidence-based medicine principles while preserving TKM theoretical foundations must be developed and tested. Current EBM education for CAM practitioners does not address how to operationalize evidence collection within TKM's diagnostic and treatment paradigms.

    Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study · 2012 · DOI

  • Practice-based research methodologies, such as case studies and observational designs, must be formally developed and validated for evaluating traditional Korean medicine effectiveness. These alternatives to RCTs should capture the customized, multi-method treatment approaches that characterize TKM practice but are excluded by conventional reductionist trial designs.

    Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study · 2012 · DOI

  • A centralized, integrated database for traditional Korean medicine research literature is needed to replace the current fragmented system (OASIS and Korean Traditional Knowledge Portal). This database must provide unified search functionality across all TKM fields and integrate with international databases like PubMed to include Korean-language research papers.

    Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study · 2012 · DOI

  • Future research on traditional Korean medicine should explicitly incorporate TKM's own disease categorization and pattern classification systems rather than applying biomedical disease categorization. Current RCT and meta-analysis designs cannot represent the holistic, multi-factor therapeutic targets that TKM practitioners employ.

    Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study · 2012 · DOI

  • Research methodologies for traditional Korean medicine must be developed that can encompass TKM diagnostic systems rather than forcing them into biomedical frameworks. Specifically, diagnostic machines and research tools need to be designed that are objective and generalized while remaining compatible with TKM's disease categorization and pattern recognition approaches.

    Traditional Korean medicine practitioners’ attitudes toward evidence based medicine: A qualitative study · 2012 · DOI

  • Contemporary literature has identified components, principles and steps of EBP as well as practitioners’ and organizational-related barriers to implementing it, including lack of resources (time, access to technology, capacity to train practitioners in new treatment modalities), organizational culture, reluctance to change, absence of leadership commitment, and, conflicting as well as inconsistent findings.

    EBP · 2010 · DOI

  • Even though the logic of EBP is appealing to funding sources, professionals, and the public, many issues need to be examined in transporting an evidence-based practice into a practice setting.

    Evidence-Based (Informed) Macro Practice Paradigm: Integration of Practice Expertise and Research · 2008 · DOI

  • [6] I should clarify that my claim here is not that biomedical theory sponsors a pedantically one‐size‐fits‐all approach to health care, or that CAM therapies are necessarily as individualised as their proponents suggest; these differences may be more apparent than real, although it is beyond the scope of this paper to speculate on the rhetoric of alternative medicine.

    Method as Argument: Boundary Work in Evidence‐Based Medicine · 2008 · DOI

  • The EBM hierarchy, which is based on traditional scientific assumptions about causality, is insufficient and potentially harmful as the basis for evaluating research on the determinants of health.

    Beyond EBM: new directions for evidence-based public health · 2005 · DOI

  • Delays in referral from primary to specialty care have been shown to prolong routes to diagnosis and may be associated with higher burdens of advanced disease, but specific clinical and organizational barriers are not well understood.

    Understanding system barriers and facilitators in transnational clinical cancer research: The value of rapid and multimodal ethnographic inquiry · 2022 · DOI

  • The major limitation in assessing risk of bias was the inability to blind participants to an educational intervention and lack of clarity regarding certain aspects within studies.

    Methods of teaching medical trainees evidence‐based medicine: a systematic review · 2014 · DOI

  • Patient care based on best available evidence is increasingly viewed as the hallmark of good quality medical diagnosis and treatment, yet its uptake is often slow and uneven and the reasons underlying the slow diffusion of evidence-based guidelines remain elusive.

    Applying evidence in practice: A qualitative case study of the factors affecting residents’ decisions · 2010 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Journal clubs (JCs) are a common form of interactive education in health care aiming to promote the uptake of research evidence into practice, but their effectiveness has not been established.

    Are journal clubs effective in supporting evidence-based decision making? A systematic review. BEME Guide No. 16. · 2010 · DOI

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