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1. What was the overall topic of the evidence-based practice change?

2. Describe some of the members of the evidence-based practice team and the types of collaborations they built to support this study.

3. Who, if anyone, would you identify as “stakeholders” in the evidence-based practice team?

4. Was the best available evidence retrieved? If so, which strategies were used?

5. What was the approach for grading the quality of the individual evidence and strength of the body of evidence?

6. Was the research evidence (existing clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews [including meta-analyses and/or metasyntheses], and primary sources/individual research studies)

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critiqued?

7. Was the research evidence synthesized? What were the evidence-based practice change recommendations?

8. Was the evidence-based practice change written in detail?

9. How was the decision to make the evidence-based practice change supported?

10. Is a method for evaluating the feasibility of the evidence-based practice change identified?

11. Was the evidence-based practice change evaluated? Was it successful?

12. What were the strategies used by the evidence-based change team to promote the adoption of the evidence-based practice change?