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By
Robert Herbert, BAppSc, MAppSc, PhD, Associate Professor, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for International Health and The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Gro Jamtvedt, PT, PRH, Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Judy Mead, MCSP, Head of Clinical Effectiveness, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, London, UK
K re Birger Hagen, PT, PhD, Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Description
Authored by an international team of experts especially for physiotherapists, this new, one-of-a-kind resource examines evidence-based
practice in physiotherapy - defining what constitutes evidence and how to implement findings in the day-to-day clinical setting. It discusses
government and professional requirements for evidence-based medicine and clinical reasoning, and offers easy-to-follow guidelines for
finding and applying evidence. It also offers useful strategies for determining whether benefits provided by physiotherapy interventions
are significant enough to make the intervention worthwhile.
Audience
Physiotherpists, undergraduate physiotherapists, Manual Therapists, Occupational Therapists
Contents
Chapter 1. Evidence-Based Physiotherapy: What, Why and How?
What is evidence-based physiotherapy?
Why is evidence-based
physiotherapy important?
History of evidence-based health care
How will this book help you to adopt evidence-based physiotherapy?
Chapter
2. What Do I Need To Know?
Relevant clinical questions
Refining your questions
Chapter 3. What Constitutes
Evidence?
What constitutes evidence about effects of interventions?
What constitutes evidence about experiences and processes?
What
constitutes evidence about prognosis?
What constitutes evidence about the accuracy of diagnostic and screening tests?
Chapter
4. Finding The Evidence
Search strategies
Finding evidence of effects of interventions
Finding evidence of prognosis
and diagnostic tests
Finding evidence of effects of experiences and attitudes
Finding evidence of advances in clinical practice
(browsing)
Chapter 5. Can I Trust This Evidence?
A process for assessing validity of evidence
Assessing validity
of evidence about effects of intervention
Assessing validity of evidence about attitudes and experiences
Critical appraisal of
evidence about prognosis
Critical appraisal of evidence about diagnostic tests
Chapter 6. What Does This Evidence Mean
For My Practice?
What does this randomized trial mean for my practice?
What does this systematic review of effects of
intervention mean for my practice?
Is the evidence relevant to me and my patients?
What does the evidence say?
What does this
study of attitudes and experiences mean for my practice?
What does this study of prognosis mean for my practice?
What does this
study of the accuracy of a diagnostic test mean for my practice?
Chapter 7. Clinical Guidelines As A Resource For Evidence-Based
Physiotherapy
What Are Clinical Guidelines?
History Of Clinical Guidelines And Why They Are Important
Where Can I Find
Clinical Guidelines?
How do I know if I can trust the recommendations in a clinical guideline?
Legal implications of clinical guidelines
Reflections
on the future of guideline development
Chapter 8. Making It Happen
What do we mean by ?making it happen'?
Changing
is hard
Evidence-based implementation
Evidence-based practice in the context of quality improvement
Chapter 9. Am I
On The Right Track?
Assessing Patient Outcomes – Clinical Measurement
Assessing process – audit
Concluding comments
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 234 pages, publication date: MAY-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8820-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8820-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 10 Dec 2009
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