Evidence-Based Practice

Uses

How it works

Comparisons

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• Evidence-based practice is not synonymous with reading studies; it is the interaction of three components: best available research evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences and presentation. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• Abstracts are not peer reviewed, so claims in abstracts did not pass through the same scrutiny as the body of a paper. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• The volume of new publications far exceeds any clinician's capacity to process them, making 100% evidence-based practice impossible. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• Individual studies are regularly overturned by subsequent systematic reviews that synthesize the full body of evidence. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• Properly appraising a single paper requires examining methodology, statistical choices, funding sources, and study design, which can take four to five hours for a paper of fewer than ten pages. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• Staying current with evidence-based practice requires a practical system for filtering and discovering relevant research as it is published. — Journal Email Alerts for Evidence-Based Practice
• Claiming that all practice is evidence-based typically reflects only the narrower interpretation of being backed by a published article, not the full three-pillar framework. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• The publish-or-perish culture creates systemic pressure to report positive findings, distorting published literature toward overestimating effect sizes. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice
• Practitioners should download papers of interest from alerts, review them, and decide what is useful for practice. — Journal Email Alerts for Evidence-Based Practice
• Tim Gabbett's widely cited acute-to-chronic workload ratio research has been shown to contain flawed statistical methods upon rigorous appraisal. — Glute Amnesia, Lateral Shifts, and Evidence-Based Practice