Evidence based practice is now well established in the health and social care professions [ 2].
Understanding the barriers that hinder health practitioners' ability or willingness to implement evidence based practices is critical for the implementation of any strategy aimed at improving provider uptake of these practices [ 26].
"For [clinically valid] cases, supplemental things—exercise, meditation, yoga we love introducing those things to our patients; they're wonderful, but evidence-based practice is the key".
Evidence-based practice is the cornerstone of modern medicine.
The vision of the CHRD is 'striving for better health through health research', and through this is sought a health system where evidence-based practice is the norm, not only in direct medical interventions but within policy and programs generally [ 13].
Sackett et al.'s [ 2] commonly accepted vision that evidence-based practice is the result of the interaction between scientific knowledge, professional experience, and patient values, makes clinical practices the ideal environment for developing and improving methods of treatment, as well as for studying their effectiveness.
We adopted the Normalisation Process Model (NPM) [ 14- 16] rather than one of the many other conceptualisations of the adoption of innovations and of knowledge management because normalising evidence-based practice is the central aim of clinical governance policy in the English NHS.
Evidence based practice (EBP) is the integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patients' unique perspectives and circumstances to optimize healthcare outcomes[ 1].
At the same time McIntyre would argue that this distinction between evidence based medicine and evidence base practice is an example of how the idea of practice should be separated from the idea of institutions [ 16].
The two participants from the health services that had clear policies, and promoted the use of evidence based practice protocols, were the most satisfied with the content.
A rheumatology based practice survey is being designed to establish the incidence of Pompe disease and other myopathies in patients with atypical steroid-unresponsive presumed myopathies (ASUPM).
