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Evidence Based Practices (EBP) for Health Sciences: Overview

Health and safety fields are promoting use of evidence based practices.

Library Resources: Evidence Based Practices (EBP)

Evidence Based: What does it mean?

Using Evidence as the Basis for Practice of Medicine

Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't
"Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients."
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Sackett, David L., et al. "Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't." British Medical Journal, 13 Jan. 1996, p. 71+.

Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP)

Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) Database

Evidence Based Practice

University of Southern California Examples:

ASK. Create a focused, searchable clinical question.
ACQUIRE or ACCESS. Search for the information.
APPRAISE your results critically.
APPLY & ASSESS. Evaluate the effects of Step 4, reformulate and repeat process if necessary. Also look at your process and correct/improve as necessary.

-The process of evidence-based practice in occupational therapy: Informing clinical decisions (otseeker.com) [PDF]

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Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEMB)

Artificial Intelligence is Everywhere!

FVTC Library Guide: Artificial Intelligence (AI) News, Resources, and Tools
"AI Won’t Replace Humans — But Humans With AI Will Replace Humans Without AI" (Harvard Business Review)
When you need FACTS / RESEARCH GRADE materials : Use Library Resources like EBSCO Discovery Search (EDS) See examples below:
EBSCO Discovery Search: Artificial intelligence
EBSCO Discovery Search: ChatGPT
EBSCO Discovery Search: "ARTIFICIAL intelligence in education"
Using DEscriptor tag and limiting to full-text and peer-review
Not all authoritative information is available in a peer-reviewed article. Try these:
Bing: teaching or learning and artificial-intelligence
Duckduckgo: teaching or learning and artificial-intelligence
Google: teaching or learning and artificial-intelligence
Yahoo: teaching or learning and artificial-intelligence
Yandex: teaching or learning and artificial-intelligence
How to Search Google More Efficiently
Log in to your Gmail to create Google Alerts

When you create a Google Alert,you run a search, select [Create Alert] and pick the frequency.

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