Evidence-based Clinical Practice in Rehabilitation

Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Joint ACCP/AACVPR Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines.

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation has become a standard of care for patients with chronic lung diseases. This document provides a systematic, evidence-based review of the pulmonary rehabilitation literature that updates the 1997 guidelines published by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. METHODS The gui...

Evidence-based practice in rehabilitation nursing.

How to use research is a learned skill. With this skill rehabilitation nurses can help ensure that their practice is based on the best evidence available. Evidence-based practice is a balance of using external research-based clinical evidence and clinical expertise. The purpose of this article is to show rehabilitation nurses how to build the skills for using evidence, rather than just doing re...

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

Evidence-based medicine has created a paradigm shift in medicine, away from authoritybased decision making and toward decision making that is informed by research and considers patient values and preferences. Evidence-based clinical practice requires accessing and evaluating the highest-quality information that is relevant to the patient problem at hand. In light of the best evidence, clinician...

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Reconsidering evidence-based practice in prosthetic rehabilitation: a shared enterprise.

BACKGROUND A divide is experienced between producers and users of evidence in prosthetic rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE To discuss the complexity inherent in establishing evidence-based practice in a prosthetic rehabilitation team illustrated by the case of prosthetic prescription for elderly dysvascular transfemoral amputee patients. STUDY DESIGN A qualitative research design was used, in which...