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Applying evidence into routine clinical care at a unit level: The exemplar of renal anaemia management
Author(s) -
GALLAGHER MARTIN P,
CASS ALAN,
CRAIG JONATHAN C
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2010.01300.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , kidney disease , dialysis , unit (ring theory) , disease , disease management , clinical practice , family medicine , mathematics education , mathematics , parkinson's disease
Variability in implementing research evidence into clinical practice is widespread, including in the management of patients with kidney disease. There are numerous well‐known barriers and facilitators to evidence implementation identified in other clinical settings and a few chronic kidney disease studies. The necessary changes to health systems that support evidence implementation take time to design, apply and to have a measurable effect. Measurement against an agreed standard is fundamental to this process. We use the example of renal anaemia management across a dialysis unit to illustrate an approach to these issues.