Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice

Transforming Healthcare... from the Inside Out©

The Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice (CAEP) is an innovative enterprise that fosters EBP for the purpose of improving healthcare through a culture of best practice. The CAEP leadership team is comprised of interdisciplinary experts in EBP who facilitate the integration of internal evidence (i.e., quality & outcome data), external evidence (i.e., research) and practice across multiple settings to improve patient, provider, community, and system outcomes.

Initiatives offered through the CAEP focus on:

• Preparing practitioners for EBP through building knowledge and skills
• Implementing and advancing EBP initiatives
• Facilitating organizational change toward an EBP culture
• Synthesizing and disseminating evidence through scholarly practice
• Shaping health policy through application of sound evidence

Through Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt’s ARCC (Advancing Research through Close Clinical Collaboration) model, the CAEP Group:

• Conducts a yearly national/international EBP conference
• Provides workshops and teaching/mentor institutes on EBP
• Facilitates initiatives that advance evidence-based care and best practices
• Provides consultation and support for generation of internal evidence
  through the development of outcome projects in areas where more evidence
  is needed to guide practice
• Conducts patient outcomes evaluations and systems assessments;
• Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration on EBP projects
• Assists clinicians to disseminate evidence through various mechanisms
  (e.g., publications, syntheses, presentations)
• Assists nurse educators with integration of EBP principles into educational programs
• Conducts research to evaluate the effectiveness of new strategies to advance EBP

In collaboration with the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation Office for Research and Scholarship and community partners, the CAEP team facilitates:

• Consultation and support for the development of research projects
  and grants in areas where more evidence is needed to guide practice
• Interdisciplinary collaboration on research studies