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Evidence-based practice — a new approach to teaching the integration of research and practice in gerontology
Author(s)	Elizabeth A Olson
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 22, no 6, September 1996
Pages	pp 523-537
Keywords	Ageing process ; Teaching methods ; Methodology.
Annotation	The method of evidence-based practice described in this article is designed to train gerontology health and human service providers in using multidisciplinary material to solve practical problems. Based on the concept of evidence-based medicine, techniques are taught that involve: precisely defining a practice problem and the information required to solve it; conducting an efficient search of the literature; selecting the best of the relevant studies; applying rules of evidence to determine their validity; identifying strengths and weaknesses of the studies; and extracting the practice message and applying it to the patient, client, or organisation. A discussion of the barriers to and evaluation of this method of teaching is presented.
Accession Number	CPA-970312007 A
Classmark	BG: VB: 3D
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