Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC
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Issues in Evidence-Based Evidence Based Practices<br />
Transferability<br />
Even once established across a range of client groups and settings, settings,<br />
the<br />
transferability of treatment techniques and models is not assured. assured.<br />
Determining factors include:<br />
�� a treatment strategy must match the needs and functioning of the clients— clients as with<br />
any treatment intervention, the course of treatment proposed must must<br />
be jointly<br />
embraced (or at least tolerated) by both the client and the clinician; clinician;<br />
�� the successful application of an evidence-based evidence based practice requires both skills<br />
building and organizational readiness— readiness support structures and institutional<br />
commitment, as well as staff skills, need to be considered before before<br />
deciding to<br />
implement an evidence-based evidence based practice;<br />
�� the cost and personnel required for a given treatment must not exceed exceed<br />
the capacity<br />
of the treatment setting; similarly, new initiatives must conform conform<br />
to policy constraints<br />
that influence program functioning— functioning e.g., financial rewards or vouchers may be an<br />
effective strategy for encouraging program compliance, but may also also<br />
be a practice<br />
that is unacceptable to program governing bodies;<br />
Adapted from COCE Overview Paper Consensus- and Evidence-Based Practices<br />
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