About Us
The Australian Centre for Evidence Based Clinical
Practice (ACEBCP)
The Australian Centre for Evidence Based Clinical
Practice (ACEBCP) is a resource centre for clinicians, researchers,
health service managers and consumers with an interest in improving
the quality and safety of health care through the application
of best evidence. The ACEBCP is a joint initiative of Flinders
Medical Centre Division of Medicine and the Flinders University
Schools of Medicine and Nursing. Its primary aim is to facilitate
best practice in health care by assisting health care professionals
develop and apply the skills needed for evidence based practice
(EBP).
The ACEBCP was founded in early 2000 in response
to concerns raised by a workshop held by the Strategic Research
Development Committee of the National Health & Medical Research
Council in Melbourne in December of 1999. This important meeting
highlighted the many barriers that prevent the results of quality
clinical research being implemented in everyday practice. The
NH&MRC shared their growing concerns that health care consumers
should be receiving more benefits at the bedside, than they currently
are, in view of the billions of dollars being spent on medical
research worldwide. This workshop identified several gaps in service
provision including poor access to health professional education
in EBP and support services that assist with implementing EBP
in clinical settings.
On return from this workshop Professor Paddy
Phillips called together a group of key health care leaders in
Adelaide. From this initial group a steering committee was formed
and the idea of establishing a resource centre for the facilitation
of evidence based clinical practice was born. In view of their
commitment to evidence based clinical practice and their belief
that there was a need for such a service in Australia several
members of the steering group donated seeding grants to establish
the centre.
The ACEBCP is located at the Flinders Medical
Centre site in Adelaide, South Australia. The ACEBCP is a self
funded body whose services are provided with limited revenue from
research grants and workshop registrations. The Centre employs
a small staff and hence is heavily reliant on the donated time
of the Centre's highly committed steering committee.
Click here for details on the steering committee
members
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