Best evidence into practice award
We encourage clinical innovation, excellence and research. As part of this, annual awards are presented at the International Conference for Emergency Nurses (ICEN) and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Annual Scientific Committee. The award is given for a paper related to closing an important gap between the best available evidence and current clinical practice.
Papers presented at the conferences and nominated by the presenters are considered for the award.
The assessment criteria considered by the review team is:
- Is the paper related to closing an important gap between the best available evidence and current clinical practice?
- Does the paper mention results of the practice change and how these were achieved?
- Does the paper mention the methods used in implementing the practice change?
- Would the findings impact the broader clinical practice in the foreseeable future?
Previous winners
| Year | ACEM | ICEN |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sharpening the focus on fundus photography use in the emergency department: A mixed methods implementation study, by Samuel Browning | Implementation evaluation of an emergency department rapid response system, by Dr Belinda Munroe |
| 2019 | Impact of a telephone helpline on emergency department and hospital avoidance, mortality and morbidity rates and patient satisfaction, by Prof. Margaret Fry | |
| 2018 | Changing the culture of the ‘just in case’ cannula in the emergency department, by Tracey Hawkins | |
| 2017 | Implementation evaluation and refinement of an intervention to improve blunt chest injury management, by Kate Curtis | |
| 2016 | ACEM - Improving care processes for patients with possible acute coronary syndrome (ICare - ACS), by Dr Martin Than | |
| 2015 | Patient satisfaction with their pain management: the effect of provision of pain management advice, by Prof David Taylor | Nurse performed ultrasonography in confirming the position of nasogastric tube in the emergency department: a prospective single group diagnostic test study, by Tai Pak Hong, et al. |
| 2014 | Best-practice pain management in the emergency department: the TARGET pain trial, by Prof David Taylor | Improving the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, by Sue Anderson |
| 2013 | Early experience with an overcapacity protocol, by Prof Drew Richardson and Dr Michael Hall | Controlled oxygen therapy for ED patients with chronic obstructive airways disease: a quality initiative, by Sarah Cornish, et al. |
| 2012 | Effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on mortality in the treatment of acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (ACPO) in the pre-hospital setting: randomised controlled trial, by Martin Austin, et al. | Can parents detect a tight plaster?, by Dianne Crellin, et al. |