Main description:

What is the evidence?
How do you evaluate it?
How do you use it to make decisions?

Put the evidence to work for your patients.

With physical therapist assistants (PTAs) performing patient interventions under the direction of a physical therapist, you need to know how to read and understand a research article to provide the best possible patient care.

The PTA must have a reasonable grasp of current evidence to communicate knowledgeably with the therapist, the patient, and other health-care providers. This text provides the information and skills you need to actively participate in evidence based practice. You'll enter the world of the clinic with confidence.

Contents:

I. Overview of Evidence Based Practice
1. The Development of Evidence Based Practice
2. Components of Evidence Based Practice
3. Patient Values and Circumstances in Evidence Based Practice
II. Overview of Research as Evidence
4. Research Terminology
5. Experimental Research
6. Exploratory Research,
7. Descriptive Research
8. Research Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines
III. Finding and Utilizing the Evidence
9. Formulating a Focused Clinical Question,
10. Locating the Evidence: Sources and Levels of Evidence
11. Locating the Evidence: Search Engines and Databases
12. Locating the Evidence: Search Strategies
13. Critically Appraising the Evidence
14. Applying the Evidence to Patient Care