Evidence-Informed Practice for the Clinical Specialist
Presented by Eric Robertson
Meet your instructor
Eric Robertson
Eric Robertson is an associate professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an associate professor of clinical physical therapy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Previously, he served as director of graduate physical therapy education for Kaiser Permanente of Northern…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Evidence-Informed Practice: An Overview
Compare and contract the terms evidence-informed and evidence-based practice as well as the traditional steps of evidence-based medicine as defined by Sackett.
2. Key Statistics in Evidence-Informed Practice
This chapter will review key statistical concepts from a 30,000ft view that are critical to understanding evidence and the significance of hypothesis testing.
3. Patient-Oriented Indices
This chapter will focus on how to determine if the information in a research study impacts our patients in the real world.
4. Domains Beyond Intervention
Evidence-informed practice requires the specialist to know about more than interventional clinical trials. This section will focus on the concepts of prognosis, risk, harm and clinical practice guidelines.
5. Evolving Evidence-Informed Expertise
Much has changed since the term evidence-based practice was first introduced, and it’s time we change how we conceptualize it. This section takes a fresh look at the concept of evidence-informed practice as it relates to clinical expertise and technological advances.
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