Evidence-based Practice
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"The research principles behind evidence-based practice makes it possible to obtain statistically valid data that precisely fit a given clinical problem. It changes how our doctors think. It can't fail to catch the attention of people who genuinely want to provide the highest level of medical care that is possible today."
Yuri Medyantsev, internist at Tomsk City Hospital and information coordinator at the facility’s AIHA-established Learning Resource Center (Tomsk, Russia/Bemidji, Minnesota, partnership)
The adoption of evidence-based practice in medicine is critical not only for ensuring the best possible patient outcomes, but also the most rational use of medications and other resources. Promoting evidenced-based clinical practices is one of the core components of AIHA's strategy to improve health outcomes in its partnership communities around the world. Evidence-based medicine helps support both immediate and long-term improvements in care at individual, institutional, and systemic levels.
Projects
AIHA’s efforts to improve partner access to evidence-based clinical research through specific programmatic activities include:
Learning Resource Center Project
AIHA’s Learning Resource Centers (LRCs) are designed to enable partners to overcome isolation from information that has discouraged the adaptation of clinical practices to reflect changing international standards of healthcare provision. In addition to providing a direct link to current information sources, LRCs also offer new opportunities for education, communication, and collaboration within the AIHA partnership network, as well as with the international health community. Read more...
EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
Launched in 2001, AIHA’s EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network is an online clearinghouse of freely available health resources contributed, created, and translated by a worldwide community of health professionals focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Read more...
EurasiaHealth AIDS Knowledge Network
The EurasiaHealth AIDS Knowledge Network is a clearinghouse of freely available HIV/AIDS-specific resources contributed, created, and translated by a worldwide community of health professionals focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Read more...
LRC Toolkit
AIHA has developed a series of toolkits that feature useful guidelines, templates, and case studies along with a wealth of practical information. The LRC Toolkit provides step-by-step information for making the most of information and communication technology’s capacity for accessing evidence-based clinical research and practice guidelines. Read more...
Products
Through its partnership programs and other activities, AIHA staff and partners have developed numerous training curricula, manuals, and other products designed to provide health professionals, consumers, and healthcare policymakers with up-to-date information and evidence-based resources. Read more...
Manuals and Training Curricula
AIHA and our partners have developed a wide range of training modules, curricula, and other educational materials that promote the use of scientific evidence in healthcare decision-making on topics ranging from women’s health and primary care to infection control and HIV/AIDS. Read more...
Evidence-based Practice Information Resources
Disseminating accurate, timely information rooted in evidence-based practices and sharing successful models and lessons learned plays an important role in AIHA’s strategy for sustainable healthcare programs. For more information on information and communication technology’s role in evidence-based medicine, please visit the following links:
» EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
» LRC Toolkit
» Educational Resources for LRCs
» Articles
» AIHA Success Stories
» Other Resources
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