Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Translating Research to Practice
Presented by Kenneth E. Learman
Non-Financial: Kenneth Learman has no competing non-financial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Meet your instructor
Kenneth E. Learman
Kenneth E. Learman is a professor of physical therapy at Youngstown State University, where he is responsible for teaching manual therapy, patient examination and clinical reasoning, and research design and data analysis in the curriculum. Ken is also affiliated faculty at Duke University Division of Physical Therapy. Ken has…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Why Study Translation into Clinical Practice?
Chapter one introduces the learner to the concept of TRIP. This module will explain the difficulty in incorporating new research into textbooks and clinical practice. In additional data explaining the difficulty in getting clinical practice guidelines adopted by mainstream clinicians and the negative impact this has on patient outcomes is presented.
2. Barriers to Research Adoption
Chapter two builds on the concept of slow adoption of TRIP by defining many of the barriers to research adoption. This module will cover barriers at the individual, patient, clinical and organizational levels.
3. Adoption Strategies for Clinicians
Chapter three will cover a number of strategies that individual clinicians can employ to enhance their personal adoption of new research or CPGs into clinical practice.
4. Adoption Strategies for Organizations
Chapter four will discuss the strategies that organizations, be it clinical systems or larger healthcare organizations, can use to enhance research and CPG adoption system wide. We will cover how TRIP can be added into a total quality improvement initiative with methods for incentivizing rapid adoption.
5. How can Researchers Help?
Chapter five will outline the researchers’ role in encouraging research adoption by the types of studies they engage in and the way the results are presented in both conference proceedings and in manuscript preparation. In addition, research design characteristics will also be discussed that makes research seem more like how clinicians practice.
6. Available Resources for TRIP
Chapter six will present several resources that the clinician or organization can use to assist in identifying TRIP strategies and how to implement research.
7. Summary
Chapter seven will present summarize the content of this course and will provide additional reading resources for the participant to consider using moving forward in their personal or organizational strategies to enhance adherence to CPGs and adoption of new research.
More courses in this series
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Understanding Research Methodology
Chad E. Cook
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Research Priorities & Study Types
Chad E. Cook
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Statistical Analysis
Chad E. Cook and Kenneth E. Learman
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Critical Appraisal
Chad E. Cook
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Errors, Fraud, & Outliers
Chad E. Cook
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Publishing Case Reports & Series
Chad E. Cook
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Self-Report & Outcome Measures
Kenneth E. Learman
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Improving Grant Writing
Kenneth E. Learman
Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Translating Research to Practice
Kenneth E. Learman
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