Table 2 |
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| Ranking of sources of evidence used for supporting clinical practice according to mean score | ||
| Rank | Item1 | Mean score (SD) |
| 1 | Information that I learn about each patient as an individual | 4.35 (0.8) |
| 2 | My personal experience of caring for patients over time | 4.09 (0.7) |
| 3 | Information I get from local policy and protocols | 4.07 (0.7) |
| 4 | Information senior clinical nurses share, e.g. clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners | 3.92 (0.6) |
| 5 | What doctors discuss with me | 3.86 (0.6) |
| 6 | Information I learned in my training | 3.79 (0.8) |
| 7 | Information my fellow practitioners share | 3.78 (0.5) |
| 8 | New treatments and medications that I learned about when doctors prescribe them for patients | 3.72 (0.8) |
| 9 | Information I get from attending in-service training/conferences | 3.65 (0.8) |
| 10 | Information I get from national policy initiatives/guidelines | 3.53 (0.9) |
| 11 | Information I get from product literature | 3.51 (0.9) |
| 12 | Information in textbooks | 3.33 (0.8) |
| 13 | What has worked for me for years | 3.26 (0.8) |
| 14 | Information I get from local audit reports | 3.16 (1.0) |
| 15 | My intuitions about what seems to be “right” for the patient | 3.16 (0.9) |
| 16 | Information I get from the Internet | 3.01 (0.9) |
| 17 | The ways that I have always done it | 2.98 (0.8) |
| 18 | Articles published in nursing journals | 2.65 (0.8) |
| 19 | Articles published in medical journals | 2.60 (0.8) |
| 20 | Medications and treatments I gain from pharmaceutical or equipment company representatives | 2.56 (1.0) |
| 21 | Articles published in research journals | 2.42 (0.8) |
| 22 | Information I get from the media (e.g. magazines,TV) | 1.98 (0.8) |
Note: SD, standard deviation.
1Each item is scored as follows: 1 = never; 2 = seldom; 3 = sometimes; 4 = frequently; 5 = Always.
Dalheim et al. BMC Health Services Research 2012 12:367 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-367
