Wales Centre for Evidence-Based Care (WCEBC)

The Wales Centre for Evidence-Based Care aims to promote evidence-based practice through the development and evaluation of internationally excellent systems for evidence appraisal, translation and utilisation. It is a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).

Clinicians and academics work collaboratively on review projects in order to promote the acquisition of research utilisation skills and foster an understanding of the relationship between evidence, guidelines and decision making in practice. As a JBI Collaborating Centre we have an inclusive approach to evidence in order to produce useable "real world" clinical guidelines.

WCEBC Aims

• Promote evidence-based health care and education within the WCEBC jurisdiction.
• Develop the science of implementation.
• Lead a programme of research on evidence-based practice development and evaluation.
• Conduct internationally excellent reviews and strategic research using multidisciplinary collaborative teams as appropriate.
• Participate fully in the collaborative activities of JBI.
• Undertake consultancy on evidence-based decision making, practice and processes.
• Provide a focus for the promotion of a shared organisational culture in which nurses in education and practice are fully engaged with evidence underpinning best practice.

Systematic Reviews

• Promoting and supporting self-care management for adults living in the community with physical chronic illness: A systematic review of the effectiveness and meaningfulness of the patient practitioner encounter
• The effectiveness of strategies and interventions that aim to assist the transition from student to newly qualified nurse.
• Supporting trail-blazing: A systematic review of the factors that facilitate or inhibit the implementation of new nursing roles: the experiences of UK consultant nurses.
• Mothers' and health visitors' perceptions of the support provided to mothers who have experienced domestic violence
• Effective interventions or methodologies which overcome individual, structural and organisational barriers
• The effectiveness of educational and psychological interventions for children with atopic eczema
• Progestogen for preventing miscarriage
• Self-care management for adults with physical chronic illness
• The effects of music listening on adult patients’ pre-procedural state anxiety in hospital
• What is the type and weight of evidence utilised in measuring the impact of ‘care pathway technologies’ on service integration in stroke care?
• The effectiveness, appropriateness and feasibility of nutritional screening tools in identifying adults at risk of malnutrition in the community
• The effect of organisational and individual factors on health care professional’s compliance with infection control guidelines in in-patient settings
• The effectiveness of ICPs for adults and children in healthcare settings