Practical evidence-based physiotherapy

Printed book plus PageburstT access - you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. PageburstT enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way that suits you. PageburstT frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching. 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. 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.

Revised edition of: Practical evidence-based physiotherapy / Rob Herbert [and others]. 2005.

Foreword by Sir Iain Chalmers Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Chapter 1 Evidence-based physiotherapy: what, why and how? What is 'evidence-based physiotherapy? Why is evidence-based physiotherapy important? History of evidence-based health care How will this book help you to practise evidence-based physiotherapy? Chapter 2 What do I need to know? Relevant clinical questions Refining your question Chapter 3 What constitutes evidence? What constitutes evidence about effects of interventions? What constitutes evidence about experiences? What constitutes evidence about prognosis? What constitutes evidence about the accuracy of diagnostic and screening tests? Chapter 4 Finding the evidence Search strategies Finding evidence of effects of interventions Finding evidence of prognosis and diagnostic tests Finding evidence of experiences Getting full text Finding evidence of advances in clinical practice (browsing) Chapter 5 Can I trust this evidence? A process for critical appraisal of evidence Critical appraisal of evidence about the effects of intervention Critical appraisal of evidence about experiences Critical appraisal of evidence about prognosis Critical a…