Evidence-Based Practice (ebp)

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Challenges have been experienced by occupational therapy practitioners in their attempts to integrate evidence into practice. Clinicians must have readily accessible, applicable, and succinctly summarized evidence if they wish to clasp evidence-based practice (EBP). What is however notable is the little literature that has surfaced with reference to the efficiency of integrating evidence into practice despite researchers having described the significance and process of EBP. Clinicians may profit from illustrations of reasoning, strategies, and resources through integrating evidence successfully. This paper reviews the various aspects of EBP and offers recommendations to overcome the noted shortfalls. An occurrence of collaboration and great communication should take place for EBP to be integrated into practise. Multiple processes and coordinated efforts are required for EBP and knowledge translation. In the increase of EBP and the transfer of knowledge for practice, practitioners and employers have a responsibility to accomplish. Practitioners, policymakers, educators, organizations, and researchers are provided with recommendations and implications so as to encourage discussion and actions.

Evidence-based practice has been identified by many health care professionals. However, a critical part of the process is real implementation at the point of care for EBP. Between practice and evidence, a 17-year lag exists within which the problem of clinician barriers are created, including the lack of resources, time, or training accommodate and weigh research studies (Clancy & Cronin, 2005). Furthermore, there may be limited or very little support for clinicians from their practise setting to integrate evidence into practice.

Health care professionals have prioritized the implementation of EBP. The accountability of clinicians to provide EBP has increased over time through the methods and the manner at which health care is administered (e.g., reduced staffing, increasing costs, shorter hospital stays, and managed care systems). In a variety of settings, the scope of practice may be reduced for the clinicians due to the increased pressure for justifying the services they provide due to the fact that do not use evidence practice from related research, which in turn reflects on the issue of under staffing and reduced service provision.

Occupational therapy organizations and associations have created new resources for EBP as a response; OTseeker, which is an online systematic review database and randomized controlled trials are some examples. Many systematic reviews have been produced by the American Occupational Therapy Association (Arbesman & Case-Smith, 2008; Arbesman & Hunt, 2008), as