Fourth Annual Evidence-Based Practice Conference

尽管研究表明，当专业实践基于精心设计的研究证据时，患者的预后会得到大幅改善，但只有一小部分医疗保健提供者正在实施循证护理。 缩小知识与实践之间的差距是护理和医疗行业面临的巨大挑战，也是医疗保健研究和质量机构（AHRQ）和拟议会议的优先目标。 然而，在一个成本控制对患者护理的交付造成极大压力的时代，护士和其他医疗保健提供者正在努力实施循证护理，同时管理苛刻的患者负荷。 因此，必须加紧努力，以减少发现研究结果和以循证护理的形式付诸实践之间的时间差。 拟议的会议是一个很好的匹配与AHRQ的长期承诺，将研究转化为实践，并侧重于AHRQ的两个优先领域：儿童的保健问题和老年人的护理。 我们的第四届EBP年会的目标是帮助护士和其他医疗服务提供者学习以下技能：（a）寻找最新的实践证据，（B）批判性地评估与其实践相关的证据的强度，（c）根据批判性评估的证据计划实践变化，（d）克服实施循证护理的障碍，（e）规划评估循证护理成果的战略，（f）了解影响高危儿童和青少年、老年人以及急性/危重病人护理的最新证据。 拟议的供资将通过在全国范围内推广和传播针对这三个弱势群体的最佳做法，大大加强这次会议的影响。

Although research has indicated that patient outcomes are substantially improved when professional practice is based on evidence from well-designed studies, only a small percentage of healthcare providers are implementing evidence-based care. Narrowing the knowledge-practice gap is a tremendous challenge for the nursing and medical professions as well as a priority goal for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the proposed conference. However, in an era where cost containment is placing extreme pressures on the delivery of patient care, nurses and other healthcare providers are struggling to implement evidence-based care while managing demanding patient loads. Therefore, intensified efforts must be taken in order to decrease the time lag between the discovery of research findings and implementation into practice in the form of evidence-based care. The proposed conference is an excellent match with AHRQ's long-term commitment to translating research into practice and focuses on two of AHRQ's priority areas: children's health care issues and the care of older adults. The objectives of our fourth annual EBP conference are to assist nurses and other healthcare providers in learning the skills to: (a) search for the latest practice evidence, (b) critically appraise the strength of evidence that is relevant to their practice, (c) plan practice changes in response to critically appraised evidence, (d) overcome barriers in implementing evidence-based care, (e) plan strategies for evaluating the outcomes of evidence-based care, and (f) become knowledgeable of the most current evidence that is influencing the care of high-risk children and youth, older adults, and the acute/critically ill. The proposed funding will greatly enhance the impact of this conference through national outreach and dissemination of the best practices for these three vulnerable populations.