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• Supporting Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses through Information Technologies

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 152
  Purpose : To evaluate the usability of mobile information terminals, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or Tablet personal computers, to improve access to information resources for nurses and to explore the relationship between PDA or Tablet-supported information resources and outcomes. Background : The ...
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• The Denmark that can!

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 137
  All so intelligent, yes…The Copenhagen That MattersBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANAs I listened to Denmark’s minister of economic and business affairs describe how her country used higher energy taxes to stimulate innovation in green power and then recycled the tax revenues back to Danish industry and consumers to make it ...
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• Autism Treatment Crisis: Insufficient Number of Providers to Meet Alarming Increase in Need

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 448
  
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• Evidence-based Treatment: When Organizations Misunderstand Evidence

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  In my last two posts, I commented on the problem of defining "evidence-based treatment" with respect to psychotherapy, education, and similar interventions. I described the concept of "levels of evidence" and pointed out that all evidence is not created equal; a testimonial may be a form of evidence, but it has ...
  6 days ago

• Healthcare screenings may be overkill

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 122
  By Dr. Seymour Handler - Guest bloggerRetired Pathologist, North Memorial Medical Center, MinneapolisA long-standing recommendation by many prestigious health entities is that people should have a health evaluation examination and cancer screenings at regular intervals, ostensibly to detect diseases earlier than would ...
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• Go for DI and SFA

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 414
  Robert Slavin and colleagues reported that reading programs that provide extensive professional development on instructional strategies which promote student participation, strengthen phonics competence, and explicitly teach comprehension strategies are the best bets for improving reading achievement. The clearest ...
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• More about Evidence-based Treatment: Some Sticky Wickets

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  My post yesterday was the first of a series discussing the concept of "evidence-based treatment" as it applies to psychotherapy and similar interventions like parent education or anti-bullying programs. Today I want to comment on some aspects of evidence for treatments that are easy to misinterpret-- or even to use ...
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• Workers Who Chew Gum Report Less Stress

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  I was disappointed by this study as I have a pet peeve about chewing gum. Everyone else in my family chews it now and then but I have always found it a bit gross.  And my dislike for it was amplified when my young kids would get in the carpet and other tough places to remove.  They were all delighted to hear about ...
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• Evidence-based Treatment: What Does That Mean?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Just as all the children in Lake Wobegon are above average, a large number of psychotherapy techniques nowadays are characterized by their fans as "evidence-based." This sounds good, and most people have heard it enough to recognize that "evidence-based" must be something better than "not evidence-based". Evidence is ...
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• Preserving memories: using photographic images

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Preserving memories: using photographic images, Nursing & Residential Care , 2009 Mar; 11 (3): 155-8 Julia Swann Abstract: Preserving images in alternative formats can offer an activity as well as providing an end product that can add familiarity to a personalized space. Julie Swann ...
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• “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 490
  Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD . Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need to dig up the link to the event’s archive, but I’m in a ...
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• Book Review: Evidence-Based Healthcare Design

  
  Health Care Fine Art — Authority: 117
  New Book: Evidence-Based Healthcare Design by Rosalyn Cama Summary : An inspirational and practical book that should be required reading for all who involved with healthcare design; especially students. Pros : EBD explained in clear language by an expert  Generous use of images to illustrate the concepts ...
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• Behavioral activation is an evidence-based treatment for depression

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  Behavioral activation is an evidence-based treatment for depression , Behavior Modification,  2009 Nov; 33(6): 818-29 Abstract: Recent reviews of evidence-based treatment for depression did not identify behavioral activation as an evidence-based practice. Therefore, this article conducted a systematic ...
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• The power of Pilates – Elderly

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 140
  The power of pilates, Nursing & Residential Care, 2009 Oct; 11(10): 520-3 Julia Swann – Abstract: Pilates is a beneficial physical fitness system used to develop core muscle strength and flexibility. It can be adapted for use within the care home setting. This article provides an ...
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• Drive: Daniel Pink’s Definitive and Fun Guide to Motivation

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  I just spent a couple hours reading Daniel Pinks new book, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us .   Dans publisher sent me an advanced copy of the book and I became very interested in it after seeing his splendid TED talk, which I blogged about some weeks back.  The book is even better than the ...
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• Using EHRs to keep current with evidence-based medicine

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 152
  “Practicing evidence-based medicine can be an overwhelming challenge to a rank-and-file physician. Certainly, physicians try to keep up – reading journals, interacting with colleagues, attending conferences, engaging in Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities, and (increasingly) using the internet for ...
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• QD: News Every Day--mistletoe and miscellanea

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 128
  ACP Internists daily digest of news and events continues with delays in the Senate, progress for hospital medicine and mistletoes evidence-based medical uses. Health care reform Senators may find lumps of coal in their stockings if they miss their self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass a reform measure . With ...
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• Chiropractors Admit Their Treatments Are Based On False And Outdated Beliefs

  
  Better Health — Authority: 547
  An article written by 4 chiropractors and published on December 2, 2009 in the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy may have sounded the death knell for chiropractic. The chiropractic subluxation is the essential basis of chiropractic theory. A true subluxation is a partial dislocation: chiropractors originally ...
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• Instruction, Information Seeking Behaviors, Clinical Evidence: Teaching with EBM Databases

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester will be over on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students, which I’ve been doing since 2001.  It is part of a week-long curriculum that all ...
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• Learning styles gets academic attention

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 414
  Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education under the headline “Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students,” David Glenn describes the hook of a forth-coming paper the examines the popular, but unsupported, notion that instruction must be differentiated according to personal characteristics ...
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