ASK
ACQUIRE (the most relevant and best evidence to answer the question)
APPRAISE (the evidence critically for validity, relevance, and applicability)
APPLY (the evidence, along with critical expertise and the patient's preferences and values)
ASSESS
References
Iowa Model Collaborative, Buckwalter, K. C., Cullen, L., Hanrahan, K., Kleiber, C., McCarthy, A. M., Rakel, B., Steelman, V., Tripp-Reimer, T., Tucker, S., & Authored on behalf of the Iowa Model Collaborative (2017). Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice: Revisions and Validation. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 14(3), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12223 (PMID: 28632931)
An approach that allows the practitioner to critically assess research data, clinical guidelines, and other information resources in order to correctly identify the clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome for future improvement.
--retrieved from : https://www.ahrq.gov/topics/evidence-based-practice.html
“Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.” Sackett et al., 1996
--retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/about/file/print/Evidence-Based_Practice_508.pdf
