title: Processes and outcomes of evidence-based practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe knowledge utilization, the models created to apply knowledge and promote evidence-based practice, and outcomes of integrating evidence into practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Textbooks, research and review articles, and professional experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Evidence-based practice is both a process, which requires activities to evaluate evidence, and a product, which is the translation of evidence into a practice change.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The integration of evidence into nursing practice will strengthen nursing's theoretical base, decrease the variation in processes of care, improve patient outcomes, empower nurses, and help identify areas for research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Dana N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Rutledge
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bookbinder
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*