Health professionals' views on the barriers and enablers to evidence-based practice for acute stroke care: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adoption of contemporary evidence-based guidelines for acute stroke management is often delayed due to a range of key enablers and barriers. Recent reviews on such barriers focus mainly on specific acute stroke therapies or generalised stroke care guidelines. This review examined the overall barriers and enablers, as perceived by health professionals which affect how evidence-based practice guidelines (stroke unit care, thrombolysis administration, aspirin usage and decompressive surgery) for acute stroke care are adopted in hospital settings.

Methodology

A systematic search of databases was conducted using MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library and AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Data

SUBMITTER: Baatiema L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5460544 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature