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Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 3   EBP 0361 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Knowing You Have Found It

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The idea

A search is finished when it has produced a body of evidence that can answer the question — not when the searcher is tired of searching.

In practice

Several studies of differing designs, together addressing the question asked.

Where people slip

Stopping at the first useful paper and stopping at exhaustion are the two common endings, and neither is a criterion.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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