TY - JOUR T1 - Purpose and procedure JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 1 LP - 2 DO - 10.1136/ebn.11.1.1 VL - 11 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 2008/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/11/1/1.1.abstract N2 - The general purpose of Evidence-Based Nursing is to select from the health-related literature those articles reporting studies and reviews that warrant immediate attention by nurses attempting to keep pace with important advances in their profession. These articles are summarised in “value added” abstracts and commented on by nurses. The specific purposes of Evidence-Based Nursing areto identify, using predefined criteria, the best quantitative and qualitative original and review articles on the meaning, cause, course, assessment, prevention, treatment, or economics of health problems managed by nurses and on quality improvementto summarise this literature in the form of “structured abstracts” that describe the question, methods, results, and evidence-based conclusions of studies in a reproducible and accurate fashionto provide brief, highly expert comment on the context of each article, its methods, and the clinical applications that its findings warrantto disseminate the summaries in a timely fashion to nursesThe 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.All articles in a journal issue are considered for abstracting if they meet the following basic and category-specific criteria:Basic criteriaoriginal or review articlesin Englishquantitative and qualitative studiesabout … ER -