Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Description

The Evidence-Based Nursing Series is co-published with Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The series focuses on implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery and mirrors the remit ofWorldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, encompassing clinical practice, administration, research and public policy.

Evaluating the Impact of Implementing Evidence-Based Practice considers the importance of approaches to evaluate the implementation of evidence-based practice. 
Outcomes of evidence-based practice can be wide ranging and sometimes unexpected.  It is therefore important to evaluate the success of any implementation in terms of clinical outcomes, influence on health status, service users and health policy and long-term sustainability, as well as economic impacts.
This, the third and final book in the series, looks at how best to identify, evaluate and assess the outcomes of implementation , reflecting  a wide range of issues to consider and address when planning and measuring outcomes.

• An informative, practical resource for an international readership
• Providing critical evaluation of models and approaches  to measuring outcomes
• Explores the importance of measuring successful implementation
• Examines outcomes in terms of long-term sustainability
• Addresses economic impacts and influence on health policy 
• Provides practice-based examples
• Written by a team of internationally respected authors

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 The importance of addressing outcomes of Evidence Based Practice.
• Chapter 2 Measuring Outcomes of Evidence-based Practice: Distinguishing Between Knowledge Use and its Impact.
• Chapter 3 Models and approaches to inform the impacts of implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Chapter 4 An Outcomes Framework for Knowledge Translation.
• Chapter 5 Outcomes of Evidence-Based Practice: Practice to Policy Perspectives. Examples from the field of chronic wounds.
• Chapter 6 Implementing and Sustaining Evidence in Nursing Care of Cardiovascular Disease.
• Chapter 7 Outcomes of implementation that matter to health service users.
• Chapter 8 Evaluating the impact of implementation on economic outcomes.
• Chapter 9 Sustaining evidence-based practice systems and measuring the impacts.
• Chapter 10 A review of the use of outcome measures of evidence-based practice in guideline implementation studies in Nursing, Allied Health Professions and Medicine.

Author Information

Debra Bick is Professor of Evidence Based Midwifery Practice, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London and Editor in Chief of Midwifery: An International Journal

Ian D. Graham is Vice President for Knowledge Translation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa and Affiliate Senior Social Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute