PART 4 – Pathways to Evidence-based Practice
Click the links below to view useful websites mentioned in Part 4 of Research Methods in Nursing and Midwifery 2nd edition.
Chapter 14 – Critical Review of Research
The following websites have useful information for critically appraising a research article.CASP—The Critical Appraisal Skills Program: www.caspinternational.org/?o=1001
The CASP International Network (CASPin) is an international collaboration which promotes the teaching and learning of critical appraisal. Once within these web pages, click on the ‘Appraise’ tab and you will find critical appraisal tools for various research designs. CASP offers links to additional resources and evidence-based web pages, making it a one-stop shop for critical appraisal.
Evidence Based Nursing Guides and Tools originates at McGill University in the USA and offers an extensive list of resources, downloadable critique tools and examples of critical appraisals using these tools: www.mcgill.ca/library/find/subjects/health/evidence
Evidence Based Practice Checklists, available from the University of Glasgow: www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/ebp/checklists
Offers several downloadable critical appraisal checklists and a useful section with key terms called a ‘jargon buster’.
Some additional internet web pages are worth looking at if you are searching for grey data or systematic reviews. You will have extensive access if you locate these via your library web page and not as an individual: Chapter 15 – Undertaking a Systematic Review Cochrane Collaboration: www.cochrane.edu.au Evidence-Based Nursing Journal: http://ebn.bmj.com This journal publishes selected research studies and reviews that report important advances relevant to best nursing practice from the health related literature. The clinical relevance and rigour of the studies is assessed to identify research that is relevant to nursing. The US Institutes of Health: www.clinicaltrials.gov The New York Academy of Medicine–Library–Grey Literature Report www.nyam.org/library/pages/grey_literature_report www.prisma-statement.org/statement.htm Chapter 16 – Disseminating Research www.acn.edu.au/scholarships www.health.nsw.gov.au/nursing/scholarship/Pages/default.aspx www.nswnma.asn.au/the-lions-nurses-scholarship-information
Australian Digital Thesis Collection: http://adt.caul.edu.au
CDBSR—Cochrane Data Base of Systematic Reviews: www.cochrane.org
DARE—Data Base of Reviews of Effectiveness Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb
The University of Sheffield, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR): www.shef.ac.uk/scharr
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of more than 31 000 people from over 100 countries who work together to help healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, patients, their advocates and carers make well-informed decisions about healthcare, by preparing, updating and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews.
ClinicalTrials.gov is a web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, healthcare professionals, researchers and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. It is also a searchable database about current ongoing clinical research studies of human participants conducted around the world.
The report is a bimonthly publication of the New York Academy of Medicine Library, alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics.
This website gives a template for a flow chart. A flow chart depicts the flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review
The Australian College of Nursing is a professional nursing organisation that provides scholarships for study and professional development activities for all nurses at every stage of their career and in all settings; this includes student nurses entering the profession. The Australian College of Nursing Scholarship information can be found at the website above.
This NSW Health Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship site has information on undergraduate study scholarships but also gives information on scholarships for registered nurses to undertake a study tour to observe and learn about innovative and best practice in nursing and/or midwifery.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has scholarships for its members to attend and present at conferences. For example, information on the Lions Nurses Scholarship can be found at the website above.