Nearly a decade has passed since the Institute of Medicine's call to make 21st-century healthcare services more effective through evidence-based decision making by clinicians, integrated with their own clinical expertise and values of the individual patient.1 Clinically, oriented tools based on synthesis of research literature have been developed by many professional societies and organizations in response to this challenge, including Evidence-Based Report Cards and Best Practice guidelines published by the Wound, Ostomy Continence Nurses Society. In addition to these helpful resources, clinicians who are current with the literature need to determine whether findings of a newly published study offer new information that might affect their practice.
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