RT Book, Section
A1 Portney, Leslie G.
A1 Watkins, Mary P.
SR Print(0)
ID 1138249423
T1 Preface
T2 Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803646575
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138249423
RD 2024/04/23
AB As  we  approached  the  revision  of  this  text  for  the  third  edition,  we  realized  that  the  prevailing  paradigms  of  clinical  research  in  rehabilitation  and  medicine  had  continued  to  evolve  over  the  past  10  years,  and  that  we  had  to  address  several  important  changes  in  the  research  landscape.  Probably  the  most  notable  of  these  changes  is  the  emphasis  on  evidence-based  practice  (EBP)  that  has  become  central  to  all  of  health  care.  The  World  Health  Organization's  adoption  of  the  International  Classification  of  Functioning  and  Disability  (ICF)  has  created  a  new  vocabulary  that  is  being  integrated  into  research  and  practice  across  disciplines.  Questions  related  to  diagnostic  accuracy  and  clinical  decision  making  are  prominent  in  research  literature,  and  phrases  like  "responsiveness,"  "minimally  important  change"  and  "number  needed  to  treat"  are  becoming  essential  to  EBP.  Attitudes  about  clinical  research  have  emphasized  the  responsibility  of  every  clinician  to  better  understand  how  to  apply  evidence  to  patient  care,  and  the  gaps  in  our  research  knowledge  have  become  more  evident  as  we  often  search  for  answers  that  are  not  there.