An emerging approach to knowledge building includes measuring the effectiveness of EBP guidelines. This approach requires steps to obtain clinical data through the application of PBE research design techniques. These techniques include:

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using collected electronic data with cohort samples of patients with identified characteristics to detect subtle patterns within comprehensive standardized data about practice interventions and treatments.

using a prospective research design to record information to characterize disease risk and generate theories about effective treatments or how well treatments work in practice.

using a standard research design for answering questions about efficacy of treatment using an experimental design with random assignment of patients to treatment with controlled inclusion criteria.

using chart review with retrospective data generated before the study without controlled criteria to research practices with treatments.