E-drug: Turning Evidence into Everyday Practice
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Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness (PACE) is a King's Fund
programme, developing evidence-based practice as a routine way of
working for health services.
Turning Evidence into Everyday Practice is an interim report from the
PACE programme. It outlines the findings from the first year of its 16
development sites across the country, each concentrating on the
treatment of particular conditions.
The report finds that evidence-based practice can be implemented
successfully and will make improvements in the care received by patients
if it is planned and co-ordinated properly. Doctors, nurses,
therapists, managers, policy-makers and patients all need to be involved
in the process to make it effective and sustainable. There must be good
communication between all those involved, to ensure that improvements in
different hospital and primary care settings happen in harmony with one
another.
The report looks at the interim results of the pilot sites and
examines some of the lessons they have learned. These include the
importance of linking work on clinical effectiveness to local needs and
priorities and an understanding of the impact of change on services and
resources.