What is Evidence-Based Practice?

Evidence-based practice is the practice of applying the best available research evidence in the provision of health, behavior, and education services to enhance outcomes for serving families. This brief on evidenced-based practice is from Child Trends and reviews strategies for front line workers to bring research to practice. Additionally, authors provide strategies to help reduce the lag time between the identification and application of evidence-based practice and make evidenced-based research easily accessible to practitioners.