JBI’s Full Text Resources and Implementation Tools Advance Informed Health Care Practice Globally
Newswise — New York, NY (October 4, 2012) – Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide’s Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a leading international producer of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources and tools. Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will be the exclusive channel for JBI’s complete EBP solution on its OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid research platforms, which are used by more than 12,500 institutions globally.
Through the partnership, current JBI members will have dual access to their resources on OvidSP, which offers robust searching and productivity tools, as well as JBI’s COnNECT+ (Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) platform. With the addition of JBI, Ovid’s customers will have access to a comprehensive, aggregated solution of leading EBP resources, supporting improved patient care and clinical outcomes.
“We’re very pleased that our partnership with JBI is expanding to support a single point of access to JBI’s premier EBP solution on OvidSP,” said Andrew Richardson, Vice President Business Development, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. “As more clinicians globally accelerate the adoption of EBP within their institutions, we’re able to support fast, effective access to the most essential resources from JBI, putting the evidence into practice.”
“Wolters Kluwer Health offers JBI the unparalleled global distribution that is critical to our continued growth and success,” said Alan Pearson, Executive Director, The Joanna Briggs Institute and Professor of Evidence Based Healthcare at the University of Adelaide, Australia. “With Ovid as our dedicated sales and support channel, we’re able to combine our strengths and shared mission to provide greater accessibility to EBP resources and increase the opportunity for more clinicians to translate evidence into practice, while allowing JBI’s researchers to focus on the development of evidence-based resources at our 70 collaborating centers around the world.”
JBI’s comprehensive full-text resources organized by clinical specialty include:• Systematic Reviews – comprehensive reviews of the latest evidence by trained reviewers• Evidence Summaries – summarize international literature on common healthcare interventions• Recommended Practices – evidence-based procedures on various clinical topics• Best Practice Information Sheets – concise information guidelines for practitioners• Consumer Information Sheets – standardized summaries for patients, relatives, and care providers
JBI’s powerful suite of online tools assists physicians, nurses, researchers, students, and policymakers to adopt EBP methodologies to effectively:
• Search the evidence• Appraise the evidence• Implement the evidence (embed the evidence in procedure manuals, patient education, etc.)• Evaluate outcomes and the impact on practice change
Wolters Kluwer Health and JBI formalized the exclusive partnership in 2010, to collaborate on providing broader access to evidence-based clinical information through its global platforms, beginning with select JBI content on Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) nursingcenter.com. The partnership is now expanding to provide the full suite of JBI resources on OvidSP.
About the Joanna Briggs InstituteThe Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is an internationally renowned research and development unit within the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Adelaide, Australia. The Institute collaborates internationally with over 70 entities and groups located across the world to improve health care outcomes globally. The JBI approach to evidence-based health care is unique. JBI considers evidence-based health care at point-of-contact with patients or clients to be reliant on the research evidence, the context in which care is delivered, individual patient/client preference and the professional judgment of the health professional.
About Wolters Kluwer HealthWolters Kluwer Health (Philadelphia, PA) is a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Serving more than 150 countries and territories worldwide, Wolters Kluwer Health’s customers include professionals, institutions and students in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid®, Medknow, UpToDate®, Medi-Span®, Facts & Comparisons®, Pharmacy OneSource®, Lexicomp® and ProVation® Medical.
Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company. Wolters Kluwer has 2011 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.7 billion), employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
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