Evidence-Based Rehabilitation A Guide to Practice

by Law, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781556424533
• ISBN10: 1556424531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-31
• Publisher: Slack Inc

Summary

Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practiceis designed as an entry-level book on evidence-based practice in rehabilitation. Specifically written for rehabilitation practitioners, this exceptional text is not designed to teach students how to do research, but rather how to become critical consumers of research, therefore developing skills to ensure that their rehabilitation practice is based on the best evidence that is available. Much of the text focuses on how knowledge is developed, making it an essential tool for both students and practitioners.While providing the most up-to-date information about evidence-based practice, this comprehensive and well-organized text focuses on building skills for understanding and using evidence, rather than simply doing research. By viewing evidence-based practice from a holistic perspective, this text also recognizes the need to include client preferences and therapists' clinical reasoning in the process.Each chapter in the text has clinical examples as well as exercises for students to complete. The chapters also include suggested further resources in the literature and on the web.Evidence- Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practiceis a necessary addition to the bookshelf of anyone desiring to incorporate the most current and complete evidence-based research into his or her rehabilitation practice. Features: Critical review forms that can be used to guide students' appraisal of the literature. Includes specific information about communicating evidence to clients, families, and decision-makers. Each chapter includes "take home" messages relating the key learning points from the chapter.

Author Biography

Mary Law, PHD, OTReg(Ont), FCAOT, FCAHS is a Professor and Associate Dean (Health Sciences) Rehabilitation Science and associate member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research. Mary, an occupational therapist by training, is Co-Founder of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a multidisciplinary research center at McMaster University. Mary's research centers on the development and validation of client-centered outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in day to day activities, and transfer of research knowledge into practice. In her educational activities, Mary is involved in teaching the theoretical basis of occupational therapy practice and evidence-based occupational therapy practice in the occupational therapy program, as well as supervising graduate students. Mary is the lead author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, a client-centered outcome measure for occupational therapy, and has written books on client-centered occupational therapy and measurement of occupational performance.     

Joy MacDermid, PT, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON), and is the Co-Director of Clinical Research at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre (London, ON). She is funded as a (physical therapist/epidemiologist) scientist by the Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR New Investigator). She has published more than 100 articles including systematic reviews, development/evaluation of outcomes measures, clinical trials, knowledge transfer, clinical practice guidelines, and identification of clinical predictors. Her clinical interests are in musculoskeletal pain and disability resulting from upper quadrant disorders and the impact of these disorders on work and subsequent health and quality of life. Joy teaches courses in upper extremity musculoskeletal clinical skills, evidence-based practice, work disability, quality of life, and knowledge exchange and transfer. She is the Vice-President of the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT); has twice won its best scientific paper award; and was awarded the Natalie Barr Lecture in 2006, the Philadelphia Hand Meeting Honored Professorship in 2006, and the CIHR Quality of Life Award in 2007. She is an associate editor for The Journal of Hand Therapy and The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapyand is the editor for the ASHT Clinical Outcome Assessment Recommendations for the Wrist/Hand.

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Acknowledgments	ix
About the Editor	xi
Contributing Authors	xiii
Preface	xv
Section I Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice	3	(10)
Mary Law
Development of Evidence-Based Knowledge	13	(18)
Winnie Dunn
Jill Foreman
Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner	31	(18)
Nancy Pollock
Sarah Rochon
Section II Finding the Evidence
Outcomes in Evidence-Based Practice	49	(22)
Angela Mandich
Linda Miller
Mary Law
Searching for the Evidence	71	(26)
Jennie Q. Lou
Section III Assessing the Evidence
Evaluating the Evidence	97	(12)
Mary Law
Ian Philp
Systematically Reviewing the Evidence	109	(18)
Mary Law
Ian Philp
The Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions with People with Chronic Pain: An Example of a Critical Review of the Literature	127	(44)
Debra Stewart
Mary Law
Nancy Pollock
Lori Letts
Jackie Bosch
Muriel Westmorland
Angela Everett
Evaluating the Evidence: Economic Analysis	171	(14)
Diane Watson
Section IV Using the Evidence
Building Evidence in Practice	185	(10)
Mary Law
Practice Guidelines, Algorithms, and Clinical Pathways	195	(26)
Donna Nicholson
Communicating Evidence to Clients, Managers, and Funders	221	(34)
Linda Tickle-Degnen
Research Dissemination and Transfer of Knowledge	255	(14)
Mary Law
Ian Philp
Health Care Delivery of Rehabilitation Services for Postacute Stroke: Home Care Versus Institutional Care-What is the Evidence?	269	(18)
Julie Richardson
Appendix A Outcome Measures Rating Form	287	(12)
Appendix B Outcome Measures Rating Form Guidelines	299	(6)
Appendix C Critical Review Form for Quantitative Studies	305	(4)
Appendix D Guidelines for Critical Review Form: Quantitative Studies	309	(14)
Appendix E Critical Review Form for Qualitative Studies	323	(6)
Appendix F Guidelines for Critical Review Form: Qualitative Studies	329	(10)
Appendix G Instructions for the Use of the Functional Independence Measure Decision Trees	339	(2)
Appendix H Clinical Pathway Example	341	(4)
Appendix I Variance Record Example	345	(2)
Appendix J Client Outcomes Example	347	(2)
Appendix K Key Indicator Record Example	349	(2)
Appendix L Template for the Development of Clinical Pathways: Key Indicators	351	(2)
Appendix M Template for the Development of Clinical Pathways: Timeline	353	(2)
Appendix N Developing Outcomes	355	(2)
Index	357