Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim

 Evidence-based practice (EBP) and the quadruple aim both help to create improved healthcare equality, improve patient outcomes, reduce hospital cost, and improve the work life of clinicians (Malnyk, Gallagher-Ford, & Fineout-Overholt, 2016). EBP is a problem-solving approach that provides the best evidence to inform nursing practice and help to provide the best patient outcomes (Melnyk & Fine-Overhold, 2018). The quadruple aim consists of improving each patient’s experience of care, improving health population, reducing the per capita cost of healthcare, and improving the lives of the healthcare workforce (Sikka, Morath, & Leape, 2015). It is essential that both the quadruple aim and EBP are equally implemented to achieve the desired outcomes due to the fact that one cannot be fully achieved without the other. EBP can help reach the Quadruple Aim in all four measures, which are patient experience, population health, cost, and work life of healthcare providers. The patient experience is enhanced when utilizing EBP into care delivery and decisions made by healthcare