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Nursing: Joanna Briggs

JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) Overview

JBI (joanna Briggs Institute) is an international research organization and collaborative network that promotes and supports evidence-based healthcare through systematic reviews, evidence summaries, and implementation methodologies.

Date Range: 2015-present

JBI Evidence Synthesis (2020-present)

What it is: JBI Evidence Synthesis is an international peer-reviewed, online journal that publishes manuscripts encompassing evidence synthesis and healthcare. The journal publishes systematic and scoping review protocols, diverse types of systematic reviews, and scoping reviews covering multi-disciplinary healthcare-related topics that follow methodology and methods developed by JBI.


JBI Evidence Implementation (2015-present)

What it is: JBI Evidence Implementation includes investigations of feasibility, applicability, meaningfulness and effectiveness in health care delivery and practice. The journal publishes original research, systematic reviews, quality or practice improvement studies, program evaluations and theoretical/methodological studies that investigate improvement or implementation. 

The JBI Evidence Implementation framework is a pragmatic and practical seven-phased approach to assist with the 'planning' and 'doing' of getting evidence into practice, focusing on clinicians as change agents for implementing evidence in clinical and policy settings


JBI Systematic Reviews (2012-2019)

Methodology: The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis provides a comprehensive guide to conducting JBI systematic reviews, covering systematic reviews of qualitative evidence, systematic reviews of effectiveness, mixed methods systematic reviews and scoping reviews, among others. 

JBI has revised its methodology for systematic reviews of textual evidence in 2024, which seeks to determine the authenticity and credibility of textual evidence sources including narrative, opinion and policy documents.