Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 180
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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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.

• 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Pages vii-viii, Iain Chalmers
Preface to the first edition, Pages ix-x, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Judy Mead, Kåre Birger Hagen
Preface to the second edition, Pages xi-xii, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
1 - Evidence-based physiotherapy: what, why and how?, Pages 1-7, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
2 - What do I need to know?, Pages 9-13, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
3 - What constitutes evidence?, Pages 15-37, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
4 - Finding the evidence, Pages 39-60, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
5 - Can I trust this evidence?, Pages 61-92, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
6 - What does this evidence mean for my practice?, Pages 93-134, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
7 - Clinical guidelines as a resource for evidence-based physiotherapy, Pages 135-142, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
8 - When and how should new therapies be introduced into clinical practice?, Pages 143-148, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
9 - Making it happen, Pages 149-160, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
10 - Am I on the right track?, Pages 161-168, Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Judy Mead
Index, Pages 169-173