Instruments for assessing healthcare professionals' knowledge and skills of evidence‐based practice: A scoping review

Abstract

Evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) has been recognised worldwide as important for the quality of social and healthcare services and patient care. It improves patient/client safety and decreases the variability of care, adverse events, and healthcare costs (Rudman et al., 2020). Also, the World Health Organization (WHO) has assumed that healthcare services and practices should be based on the best available evidence (WHO, 2017). Therefore, the WHO produces, for example, evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for informing global healthcare policy and practices (WHO, 2014). Systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical guidelines represent the best evidence, which is a prerequisite for the implementation of EBHC (WHO, 2017).

Validation of a Novel Neurologic Assessment Test for Healthcare Staff

“…4 However, to measure the effectiveness of an educational intervention, it is essential to develop high-quality, validated tools to assess a change in knowledge or skills after an intervention. 5,6 In recent decades, healthcare education has increasingly used a competency-based education model that requires demonstration of competence within multiple domains of learning including medical knowledge, professionalism, interpersonal skills, and systems-based care, among others. [7][8][9] Knowledge is the foundation from which a field is developed, and healthcare knowledge is the foundation for clinical practice.…”