Abstract
Evidence-based practice (EBP) aims to effectively provide high-quality care that provides good cost-benefit results to patients, care providers, and healthcare institutions, and also meets individual patient's needs. A review of English literature on critical care nursing reported in the past 5 years showed the following findings. The number of EBP models described in critical care nursing journals was 13 in 21 papers, and the number of papers using EBP models for research was 4. The most commonly used model was the IOWA model, and EBP efficacy had been studied using this model. The EBP processes used for EBP models often described in the journals of critical care nursing involved search and collection of evidence resolving clinical questions, evaluation of evidence, evidence integration considering clinical experiences, patients' value judgments and situations of healthcare institutions, and evaluation of EBP and its efficacy.
