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Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

Book • Second Edition2011

Authors:

Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, ... Judy Mead

Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

Book • Second Edition2011

 

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Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, ... Judy Mead

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    1 - Evidence-based physiotherapy: what, why and how?

    Pages 1-7

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    2 - What do I need to know?

    Pages 9-13

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    3 - What constitutes evidence?

    Pages 15-37

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    4 - Finding the evidence

    Pages 39-60

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    5 - Can I trust this evidence?

    Pages 61-92

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    6 - What does this evidence mean for my practice?

    Pages 93-134

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    7 - Clinical guidelines as a resource for evidence-based physiotherapy

    Pages 135-142

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    8 - When and how should new therapies be introduced into clinical practice?

    Pages 143-148

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    9 - Making it happen

    Pages 149-160

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    10 - Am I on the right track?

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    Index

    Pages 169-173

About the book

Description

Printed book plus Pageburst™ access – you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Evidence-based practice has become a central part of physiotherapy today, but it is still an area which is constantly expanding and being updated. Written by an international team of experts, this second edition continues to outline the basic definitions of evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning, while detailing how to find and critically appraise evidence and clinical practice guidelines and the steps to follow in the implementation and evaluation of evidence.

For those struggling to understand both the concepts and how to implement them, this book will prove to be an invaluable and practical guide.

Printed book plus Pageburst™ access – you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

Evidence-based practice has become a central part of physiotherapy today, but it is still an area which is constantly expanding and being updated. Written by an international team of experts, this second edition continues to outline the basic definitions of evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning, while detailing how to find and critically appraise evidence and clinical practice guidelines and the steps to follow in the implementation and evaluation of evidence.

For those struggling to understand both the concepts and how to implement them, this book will prove to be an invaluable and practical guide.

Key Features

  • Considers how both quantitative and qualitative research can be used to answer clinical questions
  • Written for readers with different levels of expertise
    • Highlighted critical points and text box summaries (basic)
    • Detailed explanations in text (intermediate)
    • Footnotes (advanced)
  • Presents detailed strategies for searching physiotherapy-relevant databases
  • Extensive consideration of clinical practice guidelines
  • Chapter asking the question: When and how should new therapies be introduced into clinical practice?
  • Search strategies
  • Evaluating quality of interventions
  • Placebo effects
  • Meta-regression
  • Considers how both quantitative and qualitative research can be used to answer clinical questions
  • Written for readers with different levels of expertise
    • Highlighted critical points and text box summaries (basic)
    • Detailed explanations in text (intermediate)
    • Footnotes (advanced)
  • Presents detailed strategies for searching physiotherapy-relevant databases
  • Extensive consideration of clinical practice guidelines
  • Chapter asking the question: When and how should new therapies be introduced into clinical practice?
  • Search strategies
  • Evaluating quality of interventions
  • Placebo effects
  • Meta-regression

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ISBN

978-0-7020-4270-6

Language

English

Published

2011

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Imprint

Churchill Livingstone

Authors

Rob Herbert

Professor, The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Gro Jamtvedt

Executive Director, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway

Kåre Birger Hagen

Professor, National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Judy Mead

Formerly Head of Research and Clinical Effectiveness, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, London, UK