On #IND2022 we reflect on JBI’s origins as the ‘Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing’ and the continuing importance, 25 years on, of evidence-based nursing research and clinical practice #JBIEBHC 🧵 1/7
Quality healthcare services require that clinical decision-making in #nursing is based on evidence, particularly in standardising and aligning healthcare practices with evidence at the point of care. JBI was founded by Emeritus Professor Alan Pearson to address this very need 2/7
‘When I was involved in setting up JBI in the 1990s, #EBM was increasingly adopted across the world, but #EBN was in its infancy. Since then, JBI has played a stellar role in developing great models and systems to support the implementation of evidence into nursing practice' 3/7
‘At a global level, the development of systems/tools to advance #EBN (such as JBI SUMARI for conducting systematic reviews of diverse forms of evidence and JBI PACES for implementing evidence into policy and practice) represent an amazing success’ 4/7
‘At a local and contextual level, the numerous projects where evidence has been implemented in hundreds of hospitals by thousands of JBI Clinical Fellows demonstrate concrete examples of successfully changing practice for the better' 5/7
‘As a nurse, I am biased of course, but nurses and midwives are the glue that hold together the healthcare team’ 6/7
‘Health systems without nurses and midwives are inconceivable; and now, I think nursing with no formal research and no rigorous evidence base is unthinkable' #IND2022 7/7
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Read this Tweetorial on relative ranks for methodological quality assessment by Jennifer Stone, Research Fellow in the JBI #EBHC Research Division, for #JBImethodology month 1/7
Did you know that there’s an alternative bias assessment method for primary studies in meta-analyses and systematic reviews that does not require reviewer judgments? 2/7
This approach uses relative ranks that are based on quality counts.
#Qualitative evidence synthesis seeks to provide an understanding of meanings, practices and processes associated with social experience, behaviour and culture 2/10
Qualitative evidence synthesis involves the identification and synthesis of qualitative studies to provide insights related to a focused question 3/10
A/Prof Edoardo Aromataris gives key points on umbrella reviews in this tweetorial. #JBImethodology
With the ever-increasing number of systematic reviews and research syntheses available to inform topics in healthcare, SRs of existing reviews, or #umbrellareviews, are increasingly being conducted to summarise a broad scope of issues related to a given topic.
An umbrella review is also ideal in highlighting if the evidence base around a topic or question is consistent or if contradictory or discrepant findings exist, and in exploring and detailing the reasons why.
Read this thread for key points from an #EBHC impact story on how health outcomes were improved for adolescents with #SickleCellDisease
Sickle cell disease is a serious, inherited, lifelong condition that affects most countries in the African region. It is associated with a very high rate of mortality of about 50-90% & lifelong morbidity. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa, up to 2% of all children are born SCD.
Adolescents with sickle cell disease have the highest rate of morbidity as they struggle to manage their condition through early recognition of signs & symptoms, when to seek medical care & in practicing routine selfcare behaviours.