scholarly journals Guidelines for Improving Entry Into and Retention in Care and Antiretroviral Adherence for Persons With HIV: Evidence-Based Recommendations From an International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care Panel

2012 ◽  
Vol 156 (11) ◽  
pp. 817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie A. Thompson ◽  
Michael J. Mugavero ◽  
K. Rivet Amico ◽  
Victoria A. Cargill ◽  
Larry W. Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Antiretroviral Adherence

scholarly journals Evidence or Evidence Based Practice? An Analysis of IASL Research Forum Papers, 1998-2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Marcia A. Mardis
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
International Association ◽  
School Library ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Research Reporting ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Or Practice

Objective - Conferences are essential opportunities for professional development and for learning about research. This study analyses papers presented in the Research Forum track of the International Association of School Librarians (IASL) conferences to determine whether the amount of school library research reporting increased or decreased over time; who (i.e., what author roles and affiliations) has written about research; which countries were represented in the research articles; what topics were discussed in research articles; and what research methodologies were used. The aim was to determine the extent to which the Research Forum provides research evidence that relates to practice. Methods - This study continues the longitudinal analysis of published school library research begun by Clyde (1996) by analyzing Research Forum papers published in IASL conference proceedings from 1998-2009 and using the same approaches and metrics as previous studies by Clyde (e.g., 1996; 2002; 2004), Clyde and Oberg (2004), and Oberg (2006). Results - Conference paper topics, author origins, quantities, and research approaches remained static through the 11 years analyzed. The analysis reveals that the papers’ authors, methods, and topics reflected those found in previous studies of school library research. As well as replicating previous studies, the role of academic research at a practitioner-based conference was investigated. Conclusions - Based on long-established imperatives from leaders in the profession, the IASL conferences provide both evidence and evidence -based practice for school librarians from all over the world. However, when scholarly research is shared at practitioner venues, it is possible that school librarians may assume that research results constitute evidence -based practice (EBP), not evidence upon which practice should be based. This distinction is important if considering that the purpose of academic research is to objectively inform, not to advocate a particular position or practice. The Research Forum can be a valuable venue for the presentation of empirical research findings and conclusions and objective program evaluations and provide a valuable complement to the evidence -based practice descriptions shared in the Professional Papers portion of the conference program. It is argued that the Research Forum must be clear in its purpose: to present the results of research; to present effective practice determined by rigorous evaluation; or to present research-supported arguments for the support of school libraries. Through a reconceptualization of EBP, the paper demonstrates how EBP is both a method and a methodology for the presentation of school library research and practice in a conference atmosphere.

scholarly journals Development of a Consumer Engagement Framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Lucylynn Lizarondo ◽  
Kate Kennedy ◽  
Debra Kay
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
International Association ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Consumer Engagement ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Group Experience

Objective: The purpose of this project was to develop a Consumer Engagement Model to plan for effective baby boomer engagement to inform policy makers in the healthcare system. This is the first stage of that process. Design: Initial model development for healthcare systems based on literature review and author group experience in evidence-based practice and research, and consumer advocacy and engagement. Setting and population: South Australian health and community service systems, and healthcare professionals that work with baby boomers. Findings: To develop an evidence-based Consumer Engagement Plan, it is recommended that policy makers undertake the four steps outlined in this document to design a question, determine consumer and community segments and scope of engagement, determine the breadth and depth of engagement and address the implications, assess risk and develop strategic partnerships to ensure the Plan is evidencebased,reasonable and achievable. Conclusions: We believe this process provides a framework for planning consumer engagement and for implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review of consumer engagement for policy excellence. We propose to undertake a validation of the model thus populating the model with examples of practice-based strategies and revising the model accordingly. Abbreviations: EBP – Evidence-Based Practice; IAP2 – International Association of Public Participation; PIO – Patient Intervention and Outcome.

Managing Pain

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Allcock ◽  
Ruth Day
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Patient’S Experience ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Individual Nature ◽  
The Individual

This chapter aims to provide you with the knowledge to be able to take an evidence-based approach to the nursing management of people who are experiencing pain. As a practising nurse, pain will be something that many of your patients will experience; however, one individual’s pain may be very different from another person’s. Pain can vary depending on the circumstances in which it is experienced and the individual characteristics of the person experiencing it. Understanding someone’s pain experience is therefore challenging because you cannot see someone’s pain or easily judge how bad it is, what it feels like, or how it affects him or her. This chapter provides you with knowledge and skills to recognize, assess, and manage the patient’s experience of pain effectively with evidence-based strategies. The variability of the experience of pain makes defining pain difficult. Pain is something that we have all experienced at some point in our lives and therefore, through these experiences, we have developed an understanding of what we consider to be pain. One of the most widely accepted definitions is that of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), which defines pain as:…An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. (Merskey and Bogduk,1994)…Although this definition is often quoted, the difficulty in defining pain is illustrated by the fact that the IASP added a note (go to http://www.iasp-pain.org/ and search for ‘pain definitions’) to highlight the individual nature of pain and the fact that pain is a sensory experience with an emotional component. The individual nature of pain is also highlighted by another commonly used definition:…Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is and happens whenever he/she says it does. (McCaffery, 1972)…This definition highlights the fact that pain is an individual experience and that measuring pain objectively is difficult. Therefore asking the person and actively listening to the self-report of the experience is the best way in which to understand another person’s pain. A common criticism of McCaffery’s definition is that some people cannot say what they are experiencing.

scholarly journals Retention in care and factors critical for effectively implementing antiretroviral adherence clubs in a rural district in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bock ◽  
Colette Gunst ◽  
Leonard Maschilla ◽  
Rory Holtman ◽  
Nelis Grobbelaar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Antiretroviral Adherence

scholarly journals Stakeholder Engagement in Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainment of an Evidence-Based Intervention to Increase Mammography Adherence Among Low-Income Women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Holcomb ◽  
Gayla M. Ferguson ◽  
Jiali Sun ◽  
Gretchen H. Walton ◽  
Linda Highfield
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
International Association ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Appointment Adherence ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Low Income Women ◽  
Document Review

AbstractMulti-level organizational stakeholder engagement plays an important role across the research process in a clinical setting. Stakeholders provide organizational specific adaptions in evidence-based interventions to ensure effective adoption, implementation, and sustainability. Stakeholder engagement strategies involve building mutual trust, providing clear communication, and seeking feedback. Using constructs from the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research and The International Association for Public Participation spectrum, a conceptual framework was created to guide stakeholder engagement in an evidence-based intervention to increase mammography appointment adherence in underserved and low-income women. A document review was used to explore the alignment of the conceptual framework with intervention activities and stakeholder engagement strategies. The results indicate an alignment with the conceptual framework constructs and a real-world application of stakeholder engagement in a mammography evidence-based intervention. The conceptual framework and stakeholder engagement strategies can be applied across a range of community-based cancer programs and interventions, organizations, and clinical settings.

The CAP-IASLC-AMP molecular testing guideline for the selection of lung cancer patients for EGFR and ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11085-11085
Author(s):  
Marc Ladanyi ◽  
Phil T. Cagle ◽  
Mary Beth Beasley ◽  
Dhananjay Chitale ◽  
Sanja Dacic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trials ◽  
Kinase Inhibitors ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
International Association ◽  
Smoking History ◽  
Egfr Mutations ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Molecular Testing ◽  
Evidence Based

11085 Background: The College of American Pathologists (CAP), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) jointly initiated an effort to establish evidence-based recommendations for the molecular analysis of lung cancers required to guide EGFR- and ALK-directed therapies, addressing which patients and samples should be tested, and when and how testing should be performed. Methods: Three co-chairs without relevant conflicts of interest were selected, one from each of the sponsoring societies: CAP (P.T.C.), IASLC (M.L.), and AMP (N.I.L.). Writing and advisory panels were formed from additional experts from these societies. Unbiased literature searches were performed to capture articles up to February 2012, yielding 1,533 articles whose abstracts were screened to identify 521 pertinent articles that were then reviewed in detail for relevance. Evidence was formally graded for each of the recommendations first formulated by the co-chairs and panel members at a public meeting. Each guideline section was assigned to at least two panelists. Successive drafts were circulated for comments to the writing panel, the advisory panel, the public (online posting), and the three professional societies. Results: We generated 37 guideline items addressing 14 areas of EGFR and ALK testing. The major, evidence-based recommendations are to test for EGFR mutations and ALK fusions in all patients with advanced stage adenocarcinoma, regardless of sex, race, or smoking history, and to prioritize EGFR and ALK testing over other molecular predictive tests. Recommendations and expert consensus opinions were generated for all other key aspects of EGFR and ALK testing in lung cancer related to oncology and pathology practice and technical issues in molecular testing. Conclusions: As scientific discoveries and clinical practice outpace the completion of randomized clinical trials, evidence-based guidelines developed by expert practitioners are vital for communicating emerging clinical standards and thereby improving patient outcomes.

scholarly journals Suicide prevention and media reporting: an evaluative study from Chandigarh

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1704
Author(s):  
Nitasha Sharma ◽  
Nidhi Chauhan ◽  
Bir S. Chavan ◽  
Priti Arun
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
News Item ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Suicide Victim ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Evaluative Study ◽  
Item Checklist

Background: Responsible reporting represent an evidence-based population-level strategy for suicide prevention.Methods: The present investigation aimed to evaluate the print media news items in leading newspapers from Chandigarh between January 2015 to December 2016 in terms of compliance to desirable media reporting guidelines issued collaboratively by WHO and International Association of Suicide Prevention.Results: A total of 284 news item from English and Hindi newspapers were evaluated for compliance using a 12 item checklist. The data was analysed for frequency in terms of compliance to each item of checklist. The compliance was also compared in English and Hindi news papers. 92% of the news items failed to educate public on the complex issue of suicide and related mental illness. 60% news items portrayed it in a sensationalizing way. 98.5% news items revealed the identity of the suicide victim, much in contradiction to what guidelines promote.Conclusions: There is overall poor compliance to media reporting guidelines. The present study highlights a strong need for a country like India to develop and implement media reporting guidelines at a policy level.

scholarly journals Work System and Process Designs for Community Pharmacy-Medical Clinic Partnerships to Improve Retention in Care, Antiretroviral Adherence, and Viral Suppression in Persons with HIV

Pharmacy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Jon C. Schommer ◽  
Oscar W. Garza ◽  
Michael S. Taitel ◽  
Osayi E. Akinbosoye ◽  
Sumihiro Suzuki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Medical Clinic ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
Antiretroviral Adherence ◽  
Most Significant Change ◽  
Significant Change

The objective of this project was to collect and analyze information about work systems and processes that community pharmacy-medical clinic partnerships used for implementing the Patient-Centered HIV Care Model (PCHCM). Paired collaborations of 10 Walgreens community pharmacies and 10 medical clinics were formed in 10 cities located throughout the United States that had relatively high HIV prevalence rates and existing Walgreens HIV Centers of Excellence. Patient service provision data and most significant change stories were collected from key informants at each of the clinic and pharmacy sites over an 8 week period in 2016 and through in-depth phone interviews. Written notes were reviewed by two authors (J.C.S. and O.W.G.) and analyzed using the most significant change technique. The findings showed that half of the partnerships (n = 5) were unable to fully engage in service implementation due to external factors or severe staff turnover during the project period. The other half of the partnerships (n = 5) were able to engage in service implementation, with the most impactful changes being related to strong patient care systems, having a point person at the clinic who served as a connector between sites, and having pharmacists integrated fully into the health care team.

scholarly journals Enhancing the evidence base in orofacial myology

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Hope Reed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
International Association ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Institutional Review Board ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research To Practice ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Board Process ◽  
Research To Practice Gap

The purpose of this article is to stimulate research in orofacial myology. The research-to-practice gap may be reduced by highlighting concepts relating to evidence-based practice. Information is also presented on the International Association of Orofacial Myology Institutional Review Board process.

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