Critical Appraisal of a Piece of Research Based Evidence.

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Critical appraisal of a piece of research based evidence. For a well grounded, effective and up to date approach to practice, a health professional must understand key concepts to evidence based practice (EBP), this has been described as 'doing the right things right' (Muir Gray 1997, page 18). EBP is to ensure that all health care is correctly and efficiently treated, a widely cited definition of EBP is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research" (Sackett et al, 1996). As our mind's deteriorate we forget what we learn from our initial training and EBP is in place for all medical professions alike to ensure healthcare is treated correctly. There are millions of clinical article's, with many of them showing newer and better ways of evidence for clinical practice. With new technologies and new ways of researching these can be inputted into a more modern way of practice. This can include mitigating pandemic influenza by thorough research for evidence and then using that evidence for effect. There are multiple sources over the internet that can be looked up for research based evidence, one being the UNC health sciences library which can be used to find relevant published articles and medical journals. It would be essential to produce a clinical question (CQ) by finding an explanation for the problem, which can then be used to narrow down your search by using key components. (Aiello et al, 2010, page 491) The main aims of this study is whether hand hygiene and mask use can reduce the incidence of the influenza illness across 1372 young adults for six weeks living in university residence halls. What influenced this study

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