Practical evidence-based physiotherapy

• Other Authors: Herbert, Rob (Editor), Jamtvedt, Gro (Editor), Mead, Judy (Editor), Hagen, Kare Birger (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann 2005
• Subjects: Physical Therapy Specialty > methods; Evidence-Based Medicine
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• Physical Description: x, 234 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780750688208; 0750688203

Evidence-based practice has become a central part of modern physiotherapy, but the questions of what evidence-based practice means in the day-to-day clinical setting and what constitutes evidence are too often left open to interpretation. The authors of "Practical Evidence-Based Physiotherapy" interrogate the terminology and concepts of evidence-based practice drawing on their extensive experience and their international perspectives. They discuss government and professional requirements for evidence-based medicine and clinical reasoning, and offer their readers a guide to finding evidence, its critical appraisal and evaluation, and its implementation in clinical practice.This title is written specifically for physiotherapists. It is step-by-step guide to practice of evidence-based physiotherapy. It is written at different levels depending on reader's expertise. It features: highlighted critical points and text box summaries for readers new to these concepts; detailed explanations in text for intermediate readers; and, footnotes for advanced readers