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The RCN Publishing Company Limited and the BMJ Publishing Group publish Evidence-Based Nursing under the editorship of Dr Donna Ciliska at McMaster University in Canada, Dr Andrew Jull at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Dr Carl Thompson at the University of York in the UK. The Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University hosts the editorial office for the production of the abstracts and commissioning of commentaries. Dr Brian Haynes acts as coordinating editor to ensure that methods and procedures are consistent with other evidence-based journals prepared by HIRU.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION AND REVIEW OF ARTICLES FOR ABSTRACTING
All articles in a journal issue are considered for abstracting if they meet the following basic and category-specific criteria:
Category-specific criteria (quantitative studies)
Studies of prevention or treatment must also include:
80% of those entering the investigation
Studies of assessment (screening or diagnosis) must also include:
Studies of prognosis must also include:
80% of participants until a major study endpoint occurs or the study ends
Studies of causation must also include:
Studies of quality improvement or continuing education must also include:
80% of participants
Studies of the economics of healthcare interventions must include:
Clinical prediction guides must also include:
1 set of patients (training or derivation set)
Systematic review articles must also include:
1 article in the review that meets the above noted criteria for treatment, assessment, prognosis, causation, quality improvement, economics, or clinical prediction guides These criteria are subject to modification if, for example, it becomes feasible to apply higher standards that increase the validity and applicability of studies for clinical practice. The objective of Evidence-Based Nursing is to abstract only the very best literature, consistent with a reasonable number of articles "making it through the filter."
Articles meeting the criteria set out above are abstracted according to the procedure for more informative abstracts,1 with the following modifications: abstracts are approximately 400 words in length; and each abstract is reviewed by an expert in the content area covered by the article. This expert writes a commentary in which she or he compares the study findings to previous research findings, identifies any important methodological problems that affect interpretation of the study results, and offers recommendations for clinical application. The author of the original article is given an opportunity to review the abstract and commentary before publication.
On an quarterly basis, we will publish to the Evidence-Based Nursing website (www.evidencebasednursing.com) a selected list of articles that passed all criteria but were not abstracted because, in the judgment of the editors, their findings were less applicable to general nursing practice, the topic was of interest to only a select group of nurse specialists, or the topic was recently addressed in another abstract.
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Journals currently reviewed* Acad Emerg Med Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand Acta Orthop Age Ageing Aliment Pharmacol Ther Am J Cardiol Am J Clin Nutr Am J Epidemiol Am J Gastroenterol Am J Kidney Dis Am J Med Am J Obstet Gynecol Am J Occup Ther Am J Psychiatry Am J Public Health Am J Respir Crit Care Med Am J Sports Med Ann Allerg Asthma Immunol Ann Emerg Med Ann Fam Med Ann Intern Med Ann Neurol Ann Rheum Dis Ann Surg ANS Adv Nurs Sci Appl Nurs Res Arch Dermatol Arch Dis Child Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed Arch Gen Psychiatry Arch Intern Med Arch Neurol Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med Arch Phys Med Rehabil Arch Surg Arthritis Rheum Arthritis Rhem: Arthritis Care Res Arthroscopy Aust J Physiother Birth BJOG BMJ Br J Gen Pract Br J Psychiatry Br J Surg Can J Gastroenterol Can J Nurs Res Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) Cancer Nurs Cephalalgia Chest Circulation Clin Chem Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Clin Orthop Rel Res Clin Rehab CMAJ Cochrane Database Syst Rev Crit Care Med Diabet Med Diabetes Care Diabetes Obes Metab Eur Heart J Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) Fam Pract Foot Ankle Gastroenterol Gut Headache Health Educ Behav Health Psychol Health Technol Assess Heart Heart Lung Int J Clin Pract Int J Nurs Stud Int J Obes J Adv Nurs J Allerg Clin Immunol J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry J Am Acad Dermatol J Am Coll Cardiol J Am Coll Surg J Am Diet Assoc J Am Geriatr Soc J Am Soc Nephrol J Arthroplasty J Bone Joint Surg Am J Bone Joint Surg Br J Child Psychol Psychiatry J Clin Epidemiol J Clin Nurs J Clin Oncol J Clin Psychopharmacol J Consult Clin Psychol J Fam Pract J Gen Intern Med J Hand Surg [Am] J Hand Surg [Br] J Infect Dis J Manipulative Physiol Ther J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry J Neurosurg J Nurs Scholarsh J Orthop Trauma J Pediatr J Pediatr Oncol Nurs J Pediatric Orthop J Rheumatol J Shoulder Elbow Surg J Trauma J Vasc Surg JAMA Kidney Int Lancet Lancet Neurol Lancet Oncology Mayo Clin Proc Med Care Med J Aust Midwifery N Engl J Med Neurology Nurs Res Nutr J Obesity Obesity Surgery Obstet Gynecol Oncol Nurs Forum Pain Patient Educ Couns Pediatrics Pharmacotherapy Phys Ther Prev Med Psychosom Med Qual Health Res Radiology Res Nurs Health Rheumatology Soc Sci Med Spine Spine J Stroke Thorax West J Nurs Res *This list is subject to modification based on the relative performance of each journal according to the set criteria.
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