Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource , 2nd Edition

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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.

Reviews

"This textbook offers a succinct and well organised  introduction to what ia evidence-based practice, how to recognise it in the research cohort, how to search for it in the many research databases available and how to use evidence to guide clinical practice. The book is specifically aimed towards musculo-skeletal practice. This should not put off others with an interest in evidence-based practice and research as, at its core, the information can be applied across the field of all clinical practice."

Posture and Mobility, January 2013

Key Features

• 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

New to this Edition

• 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

Companion Products

• Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy - E-Book, 2nd Edition : Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy - E-Book
• SD - Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy E-Book, 2nd Edition : with PAGEBURST Online Access

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Robert Herbert, BAppSc, MAppSc, PhD, Associate Professor, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for International Health and The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.; Gro Jamtvedt, PT, PRH, Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway; Kåre Birger Hagen, PT, PhD, Director, Department of Knowledge Support, Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs, Oslo, Norway and Judy Mead, MCSP, Head of Clinical Effectiveness, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, London, UK