Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 3 EBP 0322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Not Every Journal Article Is Evidence
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The idea
Journals carry many publication types — research articles, systematic reviews, narrative reviews, editorials, news items and letters — and they differ in how well they answer a foreground question.
In practice
An editorial and a systematic review in the same issue.
Where people slip
Publication type is recorded in the database record. Assuming an article reports research is how an editorial enters a body of evidence.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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