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Evidence-Based Practices: An Implementation Guide for Community-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Agencies
This handbook suggests some concrete ways of bridging the gap between research findings and clinical practice by providing guidance on identifying, implementing, and maintaining evidence-based practices. The first section defines evidence-based practice and suggests a set of criteria for evaluating existing and new treatment methods or approaches. The second section provides a brief review of the literature on evidence-based practices or principles, including clinical practice guidelines. The third section focuses on adoption strategies. Once an evidence-based practice has been selected, what are the steps needed to ensure that agencies and individual staff adopt and implement the practice? The fourth section outlines two kinds of outcome measures: evaluation of the effectiveness of the treatment approach (the evidence-based practice) and measurement of fidelity (whether staff use the approach as they were trained to use it). It also provides some further resources for those who are interested in more extended discussions of evidence-based practice and adoption of innovations.
 http://www.uiowa.edu/~iowapic/files/EBP%20Guide%20-%20Revised%205-03.pdf
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Publisher Iowa Practice Improvement Collaborative Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation 100 Oakdale Campus, M315 Oakdale Hall Iowa City, ia 52242-5000 Phone: 319-335-4494 Website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iowapic/Email: kristin-l-white@uiowa.edu
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Boston University School of Public Health 
