Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 15 EBP 2134 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Where Seventeen Years Came From
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The idea
That report indicated an average of about 17 years for a broad range of health interventions to reach practice, and it is the origin of the figure quoted ever since.
In practice
One report's average becoming a field's shorthand for the whole problem.
Where people slip
Unit 01 gave the later figure and its narrower scope. This entry supplies the provenance the earlier one leaves out.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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