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Tools to assess evidence-based practice behaviour among healthcare professionals
Katrien Oude Rengerink1, Sandra E Zwolsman, Dirk T Ubbink
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. k.ouderengerink@amc.uva.nl
Objective:
To identify and compare tools to assess Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) behaviour among healthcare professionals.
Design:
Systematic review.
Data Sources:
MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, PsychInfo and CINAHL up to July 2011.
Study Selection:
Titles, abstracts and eligible full text articles were screened by two reviewers independently.
Data Extraction:
Relevant data were extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer.
Eligibility Criteria For Selecting Studies:
original studies among all healthcare professionals that described the development or use of EBP behaviour assessment tools.
Results:
Of 19 310 identified articles, 172 studies were included. We identified 117 questionnaires, 10 interviews or focus groups, nine observational studies, 27 chart evaluations and nine studies used a combination of methods. Psychometric properties of the questionnaires used were reported in about half of the studies, in seven studies that assess a single EBM step and in six studies that assess a combination of EBM steps. One of these assessed all five steps of EBP.
Conclusions:
Valid and reliable EBP behaviour assessment tools are available. However, only one questionnaire validly assessed all five EBP steps, covering the entire concept of EBP.
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