Evidence-Based Practice Briefs

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This open-access e-journal helps find answers to everyday clinical questions. It also shows how easily the EBP process can be used to serve individuals with communication disorders and support human communication in general.

Benefits

• Includes information presented in an accessible, practical style.
• Offers topics with a real-life clinical context for decision-making
• Gives a transparent look into the selection and evaluation of selected articles.
• Provides an integrated approach using all three "sides" of the EBP framework: current best evidence, clinical expertise, and client/patient values (ASHA, 2004).
• Created by authors from speech-language pathology and related disciplines.

Features

Each article follows a similar organization:

• Case scenario
• Introduction
• Searching for and retrieving the evidence
• Assessing the quality of the evidence
• Summarizing the evidence
• Making a clinical decision
• Discussion