Utilising the Evidence
Step 5 in establishing evidence-based health care in your organisation involves using the evidence that your have found in your day-to-day practice. The evidence you have retrieved, that has been appraised and disseminated needs to be implemented into organisational systems to generate practice change, which in turn needs to be evaluated. This process is referred to as evidence utilisation. This section of JBI COnNECT allows users access to tools that assist in this process.
Resources available:
The JBI Practical Application to Clinical Evidence System (PACES) is an online audit tool that can be used by service providers to conduct evidence-based clinical audits. It allows users to compare data with other organisations of similar size and setting, and offers ideas on how to facilitate a process of change. JBI PACES is available to corporate members of the Institute and subscribers to JBI COnNECT ONLY.
Please Note: Audits from all nodes are included in JBI PACES
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The JBI Patient Outcomes On Line (POOL) program is an online prevalence database, that can be used as a stand-alone database, or in conjunction with JBI PACES. JBI COOL, a replica of JBI POOL was designed exclusively for the aged care community. JBI POOL/JBI COOL have been designed for clinicians and provider agencies as a user-friendly tool in the collection and storage of prevalence data. JBI POOL/JBI COOL are available to corporate members of JBI and subscribers to JBI COnNECT ONLY.
Please Note: Indicators from all nodes are included in JBI POOLUsers are also invited to become part of the Evidence Utilisation Network (EUN) by becoming an Evidence Utilisation Group (EUG). EUGs contain clinicians, quality managers or other personnel who wish to be part of a global network of people and organisations committed to clinical practice improvement. It allows health units and health professionals to share their experiences of improving the quality of clinical practice and to engage in international clinical audit and clinical benchmarking, based on the principles of evidence-based practice. For further information on EUGs click here, or contact Tiffany Conroy: tiffany.conroy@adelaide.edu.au
CHAINs (Contact, Help, Advice & Information Networks) are an on-line, searchable database of contact details for people with a health or social care background who are interested in exchanging ideas and knowledge in a simple and informal way. There are currently four CHAINs: CHAIN 1 for people who are interested in research and using research evidence to benefit care and service provision, CHAIN 2 for those with a focus on widening participation in learning; and CHAIN 3 for people who are interested in innovation and improvement in health care; CHAIN 4 for people working with Macmillan Cancer Support. More information is available from http://chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/index.html.
More information about the Australian and International CHAINs, which are being supported by the Joanna Briggs Institute, is available from http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/chain_international.php.