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Defining evidence-based health care: A health-care learning strategy?

The Development Group, Edinburgh, Health Services Management Unit, University of Manchester, Department of Health & Social Policy, University of Anglia

Kirsty Boyd, BA(Hons), MHSM

The Development Group, Edinburgh

Health-care planners, policy makers, economists, purchasers and providers faced with increasingly limited resources, are attracted by the prospect of reliable evidence on costs and effectiveness^1,2. The practice of evidence-based health care could ultimately lead to a redirection of resources towards treatments shown to be more effective than the alternatives. Evidence-based health care should extend the scientific methodologies to aspects of NHS activity other than clinical work. As a result there are wider cultural implications through the participation of staff in the identification of problems that are appropriately tackled by research³.

Key Words: Clinical effectiveness • Evidence-based decision-making • Evidence-based management

Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 1, No. 5, 332-339 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/136140969600100503


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