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Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

  • 3rd Edition - July 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Robert Herbert, Gro Jamtvedt, Kåre Birger Hagen, Mark R. Elkins
  • Language: English

Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy is designed to help physiotherapists of all levels of expertise to use high quality research evidence in their clinical decision making.Wr… Read more

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Description

Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy is designed to help physiotherapists of all levels of expertise to use high quality research evidence in their clinical decision making.

Written by an international team of experts and comprehensively updated in its third edition, the book considers how different sorts of evidence can be used to guide physiotherapy practice. It covers emerging methods, the use of both quantitative and qualitative research, and how to use online resources.

This book will help physiotherapy students and practitioners acquire fundamental skills of evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning, quickly find and use evidence in their work, and stay up to date with the latest evidence.

Key features

  • Written specifically for physiotherapists, with physiotherapy examples throughout
  • Clear explanations, research terminology explained
  • Suitable for all levels of expertise - highlighted critical points and text box summaries (basic), detailed explanations in text (intermediate) and footnotes (advanced)
  • Detailed strategies for searching physiotherapy-relevant databases, including the DiTA database
  • Extensive consideration of clinical practice guidelines
  • Emerging methods such as stepped-wedge trials, network meta-analysis, mixed methods reviews and process evaluations
  • Widely referenced throughout

Readership

Physiotherapy Students

Table of contents

1. Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

2. What Do I Need to Know?

3. What Constitutes Evidence?

4. Finding the Evidence

5. Can I Trust This Evidence?

6. What Does This Evidence Mean for My Practice?

7. Clinical Guidelines as a Resource for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy

8. When and How Should New Therapies Be Introduced Into Clinical Practice?

9. Making it Happen

10. Am I on the Right Track?

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

RH

Robert Herbert

Professor Rob Herbert initially trained as a physiotherapist. Rob has an interest in clinical research and conducts randomised trials investigating the effects of physical interventions for motor impairment. He was a founding Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, which maintains the PEDro database (www.pedro.org.au), a unique database of randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia

GJ

Gro Jamtvedt

Affiliations and expertise
Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway

KH

Kåre Birger Hagen

Kare Birger Hagen is Director, Reviews and Health Technology Assessment at the Norweigen Institute of Public Health, Oslo Norway.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway

ME

Mark R. Elkins

Associate Professor Mark Elkins (PhD, MHSc, BA, BPhty) is based in Sydney, Australia, where he is a Senior Research Physiotherapist in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Sydney. He is also the Scientific Editor of the Journal of Physiotherapy (Elsevier). Mark is a co-director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, which maintains the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro; www.pedro.org.au), which hosts over 1.5 million searches per year.