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JBI is an international research organisation based in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. JBI develops and delivers evidence-based information, software, education and training designed to improve healthcare practice and health outcomes.
The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database enables searching of a a wide range of summarized and appraised evidence for clinical practice. This comprehensive range of resources includes over 3,000 records across several publication types.
Evidence Based Recommended Practices: Interventions or procedures that describe and/or recommend certain practices on selected clinical topics.
Recommended Practices are based on the best available evidence and each practice consists of an equipment list, a recommended practice, occupational health and safety provisions, and an adjoining evidence summary where evidence is available.
Evidence Summaries: Short abstracts that summarize existing international evidence on common health care interventions and activities. Based on structured searches of the literature and selected evidence-based health care databases.
Best Practice Information Sheets (BPIS): Short summaries based on the results and recommendations of systematic reviews.
Systematic Reviews: An analysis of all of the available literature (that is, evidence) and involves developing a question; establishing inclusion criteria; developing a strategy to comprehensively search for the evidence; appraising the quality of each paper; excluding papers of poor quality; extracting the findings of included papers; and synthesizing the findings of included papers.
Systematic Review Protocol: Documents background information and the plan for conducting a systematic review
Subject areas covered are:
| Aged care | Midwifery Care |
| Burns care | Pediatrics |
| Cancer care | Rehabilitation |
| Chronic disease | Surgical Services |
| Emergency &Trauma | Tropical & Infectious Disease |
| Mental Health |