Evidence & Research

Evidence-based Practice Resources

• Hooked on Evidence

  Search article extractions or clinical scenarios for evidence related to physical therapy interventions.

• Open Door: APTA's Portal to Evidence-based Practice

  Provides access to several databases and health care literature from ProQuest, Joanna Briggs Institute, the Cochrane Library, and more.

• Physical Therapy (PTJ)

  Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association

• PTNow

  Evidence at your fingertips, patient care at the center. PTNow is available to members as it goes through beta development.

Implementing Evidence-based Practice

• Development of Evidence Based Documents

  To help the development of evidenced documents, APTA is supporting the development of clinical practice evidence-based documents.

• Research to Practice

  To help clinical settings implement research/evidence into practice, APTA is collecting existing and developing new resources that provide practical and innovative information on incorporating evidence into everyday practice. Resources include information on a variety of methods, models, and real-life examples with application to various settings and patient populations.

Courses

• Online Course: Evidence-based Practice in the Real World

  This module is a tool to increase your use of evidence-based practice and underscores the importance that APTA ascribes to this issue.

Research Tips

• Finding Information in Physical Therapy Literature

Research Grants

• Foundation for Physical Therapy
• Grants.gov

APTA Research

• Research Agenda for Physical Therapy
• Development of an Instrument to Measure Patient Satisfaction
• Physical Therapy Workforce Data
• APTA Section on Research
• Researching APTA and Physical Therapy History

• Last Updated: 8/2/2012
• Contact: research@apta.org
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