Title |
The challenges of communicating research evidence in practice: perspectives from UK health visitors and practice nurses
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Published in |
BMC Nursing, July 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6955-12-17 |
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Authors |
Jennifer E van Bekkum, Shona Hilton |
Abstract |
Health practitioners play a pivotal role in providing patients with up-to-date evidence and health information. Evidence-based practice and patient-centred care are transforming the delivery of healthcare in the UK. Health practitioners are increasingly balancing the need to provide evidence-based information against that of facilitating patient choice, which may not always concur with the evidence base. There is limited research exploring how health practitioners working in the UK, and particularly those more autonomous practitioners such as health visitors and practice nurses working in community practice settings, negotiate this challenge. This research provides a descriptive account of how health visitors and practice nurses negotiate the challenges of communicating health information and research evidence in practice. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
Canada | 1 | 13% |
Spain | 1 | 13% |
Unknown | 4 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
Scientists | 2 | 25% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
Botswana | 1 | 2% |
South Africa | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 59 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 14 | 22% |
Student > Bachelor | 11 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 14% |
Researcher | 5 | 8% |
Librarian | 3 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 13% |
Unknown | 13 | 21% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 24% |
Social Sciences | 9 | 14% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 14% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 5% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 13% |
Unknown | 16 | 25% |