Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy Foreword by Sir Iain Chalmers written by an international team of experts Rob Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kare Birger Hagen, Judy Mead.
About this Book - Buy Book - Click Here - The aim of this Book is to provide physiotherapist with a practical guide to evidence-based physiotherapy. What is Evidence-based physiotherapy?
Evidence-based physiotherapy is physiotherapy informed by relevant, high-quality clinical research. This implies that when we refer to 'evidence' we mean high-quality clinical research.
Our definition of evidence-based physiotherapy differs from earlier defini tions of evidence-based physiotherapy and evidence-based health care. Previous authors considered that practice was evidence based when it involved the use of the best available evidence (Bury & Mead 1998, Sackett et al 2000). Download Full PDF - Click Here
The best available evidence might be high-quality clinical research, but where high-quality clinical research is not available the best available evidence could consist of poor-quality clinical research, consensus views or clinical experi ence.
That is, according to earlier definitions, evidence-based practice could be practice based on poor-quality clinical research, consensus views or clinical ex perience.We recognize that there is often insufficient relevant, high-quality re search to inform clinical decisions and that, when this is the case, decisions still need to be made.
Sometimes best practice can be informed only by poor quality clinical research, consensus views or clinical experience. However, in our view, such practices cannot be considered to be evidence based. The term 'evidence-based physiotherapy' should be reserved for physiotherapy that is based on high-quality clinical research. Read More
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