TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence-based practice for rehabilitation professionals
T2 - Concepts and controversies
AU - Dijkers, Marcel P.
AU - Murphy, Susan L.
AU - Krellman, Jason
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education Services, Department of Education (grant no. H133A080053 ).
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - This article describes evidence-based practice (EBP) in the health professions and sciences in general and in the rehabilitation disciplines specifically. It discusses the following: what counts as evidence and how that has changed over the last 4 decades, trends in the short history of evidence-based medicine and EBP, the fallacious nature of most criticisms of EBP, (perceived) shortcomings of clinical research and the resulting evidence in rehabilitation, resources available to clinicians who want their practice to be evidence-based, and the barriers these clinicians face in keeping up with the evidence and applying it in practice. Lastly, it describes how the development of a new art and science, knowledge translation, may play a role in truly making EBP feasible in rehabilitation services.
AB - This article describes evidence-based practice (EBP) in the health professions and sciences in general and in the rehabilitation disciplines specifically. It discusses the following: what counts as evidence and how that has changed over the last 4 decades, trends in the short history of evidence-based medicine and EBP, the fallacious nature of most criticisms of EBP, (perceived) shortcomings of clinical research and the resulting evidence in rehabilitation, resources available to clinicians who want their practice to be evidence-based, and the barriers these clinicians face in keeping up with the evidence and applying it in practice. Lastly, it describes how the development of a new art and science, knowledge translation, may play a role in truly making EBP feasible in rehabilitation services.
KW - Allied health occupations
KW - Evidence-based medicine
KW - Evidence-based practice
KW - Practice guidelines as topic
KW - Professional practice
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Review literature as topic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864279154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.12.014
DO - 10.1016/j.apmr.2011.12.014
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:84864279154
SN - 0003-9993
VL - 93
SP - S164-S176
JO - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
IS - 8 SUPPL.
ER -