Tools to assess evidence-based practice behaviour among healthcare professionals.
OBJECTIVE
To identify and compare tools to assess Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) behaviour among healthcare professionals.


METHODS
Systematic review.


METHODS
MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, PsychInfo and CINAHL up to July 2011.


METHODS
Titles, abstracts and eligible full text articles were screened by two reviewers independently.


METHODS
Relevant data were extracted by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer.


METHODS
original studies among all healthcare professionals that described the development or use of EBP behaviour assessment tools.


RESULTS
Of 19 310 identified articles, 172 studies were included. We identified 117 questionnaires, 10 interviews or focus groups, nine observational studies, 27 chart evaluations and nine studies used a combination of methods. Psychometric properties of the questionnaires used were reported in about half of the studies, in seven studies that assess a single EBM step and in six studies that assess a combination of EBM steps. One of these assessed all five steps of EBP.


CONCLUSIONS
Valid and reliable EBP behaviour assessment tools are available. However, only one questionnaire validly assessed all five EBP steps, covering the entire concept of EBP.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. k.ouderengerink@amc.uva.nl
Katrien
K
Oude Rengerink
Sandra E
SE
Zwolsman
Dirk T
DT
Ubbink
Ben W J
BW
Mol
Nynke
N
van Dijk
Hester
H
Vermeulen
D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards