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的证据时，患者的预后会得到显著改善，但只有一小部分医疗保健提供者正在实施循证护理。缩小知识与实践的差距对护理和医疗专业来说是一个巨大的挑战，也是卫生保健研究和质量机构(AHRQ)和拟议的会议的优先目标。然而，在一个成本控制给患者护理提供带来极大压力的时代，护士和其他医疗保健提供者正在努力实施循证护理，同时管理要求苛刻的患者负载。因此，必须加紧努力，以循证护理的形式缩短从发现研究成果到将其付诸实践的时间间隔。 拟议的会议与AHRQ将研究转化为实践的长期承诺非常匹配，并侧重于AHRQ的两个优先领域：儿童保健问题和老年人护理。我们第四届EBP年度会议的目标是帮助护士和其他医疗保健提供者学习以下技能：(A)搜索最新的实践证据，(B)严格评估与其实践相关的证据的强度，(C)针对经过严格评估的证据计划实践变化，(D)克服实施循证护理的障碍，(E)计划评估循证护理结果的战略，以及(F)了解影响高危儿童和青年、老年人以及急危重症护理的最新证据。拟议的资金将通过在全国范围内推广和传播这三个弱势群体的最佳做法，极大地增强本次会议的影响。

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.