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Evidence into Action prize
About the NHMRC's NICS Evidence into Action prizes
The NHMRC NICS Evidence-into-Action prize is offered annually at a number of national health and medical conferences to the paper or poster that best demonstrates improving health care in Australia by closing an identified gap between the available evidence and clinical practice.
This prize aims to highlight and encourage projects designed to get best evidence into practice in Australian hospitals.
The winning abstract is selected by an independent, blinded review panel which assessed each abstract according the following criteria:
- Is the paper related to a clinical evidence-practice gap?
- Has the paper used implementation theory to address the evidence-practice gap?
- Were clinicians involved in the project?
- Does the paper mention barriers faced in implementing the project, or factors that helped (enablers) in implementing the project?
- Does the paper mention measurement of health care outputs or outcomes (improvements), and how these were achieved??
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2009 NHMRC NICS CENA Evidence into Action Prize
Congratulations to Margaret Villella at the Sandringham Hospital emergency department (Melbourne) on receiving the NHMRC NICS ‘Evidence into Action prize’ at the recent 2009 College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) 7th International Conference for Emergency Nursing, for her paper Implementing a Burns Protocol into the Emergency Department.
Congratulations also to Ruth Hollin, from the Nursing Research Centre at Mater Health Services (Brisbane), on her Highly Commended paper Evidence-based practice translation project in a paediatric emergency department: Antipyretic interventions for children with fever.
A copy of both abstracts can be found at the bottom of this page.
The next prize will be awarded at the ACEM 26th Annual Scientific Meeting 2009, 15-19 November.
To view the winning and highly commended abstracts please click on the following links:
- » Implementing a Burns Protocol into the Emergency Department (13Kb PDF)
- » Evidence-based practice translation project in a paediatric emergency department: Antipyretic interventions for children with fever (14Kb PDF)
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Prizes awarded in 2008
- 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, 23-27 November 2008, Wellington NZ. Bernard Yeoh, David Taylor and Simone Taylor from The Austin Hospital, Victoria. 'An intervention trial increases the evidence-based use of metoclopramide following morphine administration'.
- National Forum on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Dr Raymond Chaseling, Ms Gabrielle O'Grady, Mr Ahmed Jamal and Ms Elizabeth Harnett from the Children's Hospital at Westmead. 'Evidence into Action: Reducing surgical site infections in paediatric neurosurgical patients'.
- WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Jeremy Bunker, Nicholas Zwar, Sanyjot Vagholkar, Sarah Dennis, Guy Marks and Alan Crockett, 'A project to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of case finding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by practice nurses in general practice.'
- Royal College of Nursing Annual Conference, Trish Wilson and Vicki Flenady from Mater Hospital, Queensland. 'Implementing Best Practice Guidelines into Clinical Practice after Perinatal Loss'
- 3rd National Conference for Emergency Nurses (CENA), Suzanne Colby from the West Gippsland Healthcare Group. 'Improving Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the rural Emergency Department'.
- 3rd International Congress on Women's Mental Health, Sacha Filia, Amanda Baker, Robyn Richmond, David Castle, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Rebecca Sakrouge, Rachel Taylor, Dianne Harris, Anthony de Castella and Jayashri Kulkarni. 'The healthy lifestyles project: pilot data in women with psychosis'. To view their winning poster and paper, please click on the following links.
- 2008 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference, Diane Arnold-Reed, Tom Brett, William Walker, Frances Cadden, Julie Young, Noelene Mora, Wendy Manae-Walley, Dana Hince, and Michele Caneppele. ' Progress in the Fremantle Primary Prevention study - a pilot study of risk factor modification for cardiovascular disease'. To view their winning poster, please click on the following link.
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