This paper reports a study to explore the barriers to evidence-based nursing among Flemish (Belgian) nurses.

The authors systematically review studies that assessed the effectiveness of evidence-based practice (EBP) teaching to improve knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior of postgraduate healthcare workers, and describe instruments available to evaluate EBP teaching.

This paper describes the current understanding of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and discusses some key attributes of EBM that still or now cause concern. Specifically, these attributes are the nature of evidence in EBM; the unknown effectiveness of EBM; the clinician-centric focus of EBM; and the potential of EBM to harm patients.