Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 3 EBP 0363 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Misconception: The Best Evidence Is the Newest
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The idea
Relevance to the question, not recency, decides whether a study belongs in the body of evidence.
In practice
An older case study retained because nothing newer describes the phenomenon.
Where people slip
Date limits are easy to apply and quietly discard the only evidence that exists on rarely studied questions.
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