THE EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE DATABASE EBPD

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• Design and Development of an Evidence Database
• for Social Care of the Aged
• Elizabeth Taylor, MLIS, The New York Academy of
  Medicine Library, Peri Rosenfeld, PhD, Formerly
  with the New York Academy of Medicine, now with
  The Visiting Nurse Service of New York City.

EBPD INTERFACE
BACKGROUND
METHODS

• The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) is an
  independent, non-partisan, non-profit institution
  whose mission is to improve the health of people
  living in cities.
• NYAMs Social Work Leadership Institute (SWLI)
  works to ensure that America's older adults and
  their caregivers get the care they need. The
  goals are to
• increase the number of social workers trained to
  work with the aging population
• advance the field of aging care through research
  and best practices
• forge multidisciplinary alliances to advocate on
  behalf of older adult care and their caregivers
  and
• promote policy that will encourage care
  coordination for older adults.
• The Center for Aging Policy (CAP) is an
  initiative of SWLI at NYAM. CAP was founded in
  2005 by funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies.
  CAP pursues public policy solutions to ensure
  that there is a strong workforce of social
  workers with geriatric training to support health
  and social service needs of America's growing
  older population.

• LITERATURE SEARCH AND REVIEW PROCESS
• Search question
• What outcomes measures exist on social work
  practices?
• Has changed as the database developed
• Not confined to the elderly
• Attempt to focus on care coordination
• Social Work Abstracts, SocIndex Fulltext,
  Sociological collection, PsycINFO, CINAHL,
  PubMed.
• Bibliographic management software used to manage
  results
• EBD team originally examined over 2000 abstracts
  and selected appropriate articles according to
• Measure
• Outcome
• Social Work
• Intervention
• 190 articles were selected for further review.
• Each article is evaluated for level of evidence
  and indexed by 2 reviewers.
• Final evaluation by third reviewer.
• DATABASE DEVELOPMENT
• Database designer MySQL

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• Increase the number of Advisory Group members,
  who are examining these issues
• Purpose
• Mission statement
• Audience
• Policy makers
• Practitioners
• Niche
• Do not duplicate other efforts (Campbell or
  Cochrane).
• Revise and refine searching, according to future
  focus of the EBPD.
• Revise and define review criteria interventions,
  outcomes, evidence levels.
• Improve search interface add Boolean
  capabilities.
• Write procedure manual, including search help.
• Track usage.
• Include review articles and meta-analyses.
• Include grey literature. The EBPD links to the
  NYAM Librarys Grey Literature Report that
  already includes relevant material.

SOCIAL WORK EVIDENCE PYRAMID
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THE EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE DATABASE (EBPD)
Based on principles of evidence-based healthcare,
the goal of this database is to make easily
available a body of literature showing the
effectiveness of social work interventions and
treatments that can be used by interested
parties, including advocacy groups, policy
makers, social workers and students, to support
leadership roles for social workers and
educational programs for training geriatric
social workers. It is designed to focus on the
needs of the elderly, but currently includes
studies of effectiveness in all age groups.
EBPD TEAM
Patricia Volland, MSW, MBA Sarah Sisco, MSSW,
MPH Jeannine Melly, MPH Karen Olsen Crissy
Liu, MSSW/MPA Candidate Alissa Yarknoy The
Social Work Leadership Institute Evidence
Database can be found at http//socialworkleaders
hip.org/nsw/cap/ebp.php
Based on Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, 2002 Grading of Recommendations
Assessment, Development and Evaluation Working
Group, 2004 Stetler, C. 2001 Weightman, A. et
al., 2005