RT Book, Section
A1 Hack, Laurita M.
A1 Gwyer, Jan
SR Print(0)
ID 1134637620
T1 Preface
T2 Evidence into Practice: Integrating Judgment, Values, and Research
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803618084
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1134637620
RD 2024/04/20
AB Writing  a  book  successfully  needs  a  spark  to  begin,  a  passion  to  continue,  and  a  determination  to  finish.  The  spark  for  this  book  came  from  reflection  on  the  patterns  of  practice  exhibited  by  the  expert  physical  therapists  we  studied  for  the  text,  Expertise  in  Physical  Therapy  Practice,  written  with  our  colleagues  Gail  Jensen,  and  Katherine  Shepard.1  Before  the  concepts  of  evidence  based  practice  had  become  known  in  the  United  States,  the  experts  we  interviewed  were  describing  a  pattern  of  practice  that  was  deeply  imbedded  in  a  unified  sense  of  practice,  something  we  called  a  philosophy  of  practice.  This  philosophy  grew  from  clinical  judgment—  making  good  decisions,  knowledge—arising  from  available  literature  and  from  patients;  virtue—a  passion  to  do  the  right  thing;  and  movement—using  their  own  bodies  and  influencing  their  patients  to  produce  the  desired  effect.  Based  on  responses  from  our  readers  and  from  colleagues  with  whom  we  discussed  our  results,  we  knew  that  this  pattern  of  practice  was  intriguing  and  important  and  that  physical  therapists  wanted  to  emulate  it.