Welcome to JBI COnNECT
Connecting the best available international evidence to the point-of-care
Introducing JBI COnNECT
The Infection Control node of JBI COnNECT is a unique infection-control-specific web based facility that provides online resources and tools to assist clinicians, patients and their families to utilise evidence-based information in clinical decision making processes.
The Infection Control node is a user-friendly collection of online resources designed to inform and assist:
- the users of infection control services (consumers);
- service providers (managers of health care facilities); and
- healthcare professionals (nurses, medical practitioners and allied health professionals);
JBI COnNECT is essentially a "one-stop-shop" stocked with a wide range of resources for facilitating effective and appropriate evidence-based infection control.
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) has a well-established reputation in the area of evidence-based clinical decision support and clinical practice improvement and has provided a resource which assists users to summarise, disseminate and utilise the best evidence available.
This node of JBI COnNECT is designed for, and readily accessible to, infection control professionals and providers and service users. The resources address aspects of clinical care relevant to the care of patients in health care facilities. The resources enhance the ability of infection control workers to provide consistent and appropriate care, while reducing the risk of crossover infections and possible infections. The resources also facilitate staff training and continuous improvement within the infection control sector.
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Evidence-based infection control - or "Best Practice" - is care that is based on the best available international evidence. Health care facilities and professionals - doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are committed to evidence-based best practice collaborate with patients and their families or significant others to make decisions about care and treatment based on the outcomes of a vast array of research and information generated across the world and published in books, scientific and professional journals, and government and professional association reports. Bringing together the findings and recommendations of this enormous (and growing!) information base, international organisations such as the Cochrane Collaboration; the Campbell Collaboration; and the Joanna Briggs Institute invest time, expertise and resources searching and synthesising this booming information source to support the clinical decision making of health professionals and to assist the users of services to make informed choices.
Evidence-based organisations or professionals engage in the six essential steps of evidence-based health care:
- Searching for the Evidence
- Appraising the Evidence
- Summarising the Evidence
- Embedding the Evidence in Practice and in Systems
- Utilising (using) the Evidence
- Evaluating the Evidence
The Infection Control node of JBI COnNECT consists of a range of resources developed by JBI for users of and professionals working in the infection control sector to search, appraise, summarise, embed and utilise the best available international evidence:
JBI COnNECT searches the evidence for its users - and gives access to a wide range of databases for users to search. JBI COnNECT also gives access to JBI RAPid to assist users to appraise the evidence - and access to the JBI Evidence Review Network:
Users of JBI COnNECT can also access summarised evidence; tools to embed evidence in their operating systems; tools to implement evidence; and tools to evaluate the impact of using evidence on patient outcomes:
This node is part of JBI COnNECT (COnNECT standing for Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) - a gateway to everything consumers and providers need to become informed service users, evidence-based organisations or evidence-based practitioners.
JBI COnNECT is the gateway to specialist online services for Infection control - and for a wide range of health care specialities and professions.
The Infection control node of JBI COnNECT is designed to meet the needs of the infection control sector.
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