Evidence-based cardiovascular treatment is to improve health care quality and outcomes. Despite the relative strength of the evidence base guiding cardiac care, many current practices for the treatment and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease are suboptimal and substantial inequalities in treatment and access remain common.the predictive power of prognostic factors.
Evidence-based practice also provides opportunities for nursing care to be more individualized, more effective, streamlined and dynamic and to maximize effects of the clinical judgment. When evidence is used to define best practices rather than to support existing practices, nursing care keeps pace with the latest technological advances and takes advantage of new knowledge developments.
