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Connecting the best available international evidence to the point-of-care
Introducing JBI COnNECT
The Occupational Therapy node of JBI COnNECT is a unique Occupational Therapy-specific web based facility that provides online resources and tools to inform and assist occupational therapists and their patients/clients to utilise evidence-based information in clinical decision making processes.
JBI COnNECT is essentially a "one-stop-shop" stocked with a wide range of resources for facilitating effective and appropriate evidence-based occupational therapy.
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) has a well-established reputation in the area of evidence-based clinical decision support and clinical practice improvement and is pleased to be working with our international reference groups in establishing and maintaining the occupational therapy node of JBI COnNECT.
It is anticipated that the provision of these resources will be useful to occupational therapists and will improve patient/client outcomes. The resources enhance the ability of occupational therapists to provide consistent and appropriate care, while reducing the risk of clinical adverse events. The resources also facilitate staff training and continuous improvement within the occupational therapy sector.
To download the JBI COnNECT User Guides click here.
Evidence-based care - or "Best Practice" - is care that is based on the best available international evidence. Practitioners who are committed to evidence-based best practice make decisions about care and treatment based on the outcomes of a vast array of research and information generated across the world and published in books, scientific and professional journals, and government and professional association reports. Bringing together the findings and recommendations of this enormous (and growing!) information base, international organisations such as the Cochrane Collaboration, the Campbell Collaboration and the Joanna Briggs Institute invest time, expertise and resources searching this booming information source to combine and summarise it to support the clinical decision making of health professionals and to assist the users of services to make informed choices.
Evidence-based organisations or professionals engage in the six essential steps of evidence-based occupational therapy care:
- Searching for the Evidence
- Appraising the Evidence
- Summarising the Evidence
- Embedding the Evidence in Practice and in Systems
- Utilising (using) the Evidence
- Evaluating the Evidence
The occupational therapy node of JBI COnNECT consists of a range of resources to search, appraise, summarise, embed and utilise the best available international research evidence:
JBI COnNECT searches the evidence for its users - and gives access to a wide range of databases for users to search. JBI COnNECT also gives access to JBI RAPid to assist users to appraise evidence - and access to the JBI Evidence Review Network:
Users of JBI COnNECT can also access summarised evidence,; tools to embed evidence in their operating systems, tools to implement evidence and tools to evaluate the impact of using evidence on patient/client outcomes:
This node is part of JBI COnNECT (COnNECT standing for Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) - a gateway to everything consumers and providers need to become informed service users, evidence-based organisations or evidence-based practitioners.
JBI COnNECT is the gateway to specialist online services for occupational therapist – as well as a wide range of different health and aged care specialties and professions. Each of these specialties and professions are represented as a 'node' of JBI COnNECT, and are accessible from the JBI COnNECT index page.
If you are using JBI COnNECT for the first time, find out more by visiting the JBI COnNECT About pages once you enter the site.
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