How MORE EBN Ratings Are Used

The rating system supports an Internet-based alerting system and "best evidence" database of links to original articles and systematic reviews to help nurses in a wide and expanding range of clinical specialties keep up to date with the health care literature. We will use the ratings to help us select articles that are most interesting to raters and readers.

The rating system has several “perks” for raters:

1. we send only articles that have passed our criteria for scientific merit (Inclusion Criteria);
2. we provide raters with scores from other raters for the same articles (Rating History);
3. we send you a yearly summary of your ratings to include in your professional practice portfolio (continuing education credits pending); and
4. we provide the highest rated articles to all raters in a given discipline (Stellar Articles).

Ratings will be used to prepare evidence-based journals and texts, including:

• Evidence-Based Nursing and bmjupdates+ for the BMJ Publishing Group

bmjupdates+ is a free service to which all can subscribe.