Preparing for Research in Physical Therapy

Preparing for research: metatheoretical considerations

Preparing for research: metatheoretical considerations In Chapter 2 a distinction was made between international and comparative librarianship and the scope of these two fields was outlined. In a sense we were running a little ahead of our material, since any such delimitation rests on certain basic assumptions. These assumptions, of which we may or may not be aware, can be broadly labeled meta...

Preparing chimpanzees for laboratory research.

The chimpanzee is the only representative of the Great Apes that is extensively involved in biomedical research in primate laboratories. These apes are used as animal models in a variety of studies, including research on infectious disease, parasitic disease, pharmacokinetic studies, neuroscience, cognition, and behavior. Chimpanzees used in biomedical research in the United States reside large...

Reporting ethical protections in physical therapy research.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Efforts to make physical therapy more evidence based have increased demand for human participants, raising concerns for their safety and welfare. This study examined how often research articles in physical therapy journals report basic ethical protections. METHODS We carried out a retrospective audit of research articles in 6 physical therapy journals between 1996 and 2...

Outcomes research: shifting the dominant research paradigm in physical therapy.

This article discusses outcomes research in physical therapy and places its conceptual roots within the work on quality-of-care assessment. An argument is advanced that the outcomes research movement in medicine has stimulated clinical researchers in physical therapy to address disability outcomes in addition to traditional impairment outcomes. If physical therapy clinical research moves beyond...

Productivity Fellowships for Research: Physical Education, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology and Occupational Therapy.