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

  Tools for advancing physical therapist practice. Beta demonstration took place at APTA's Annual Conference (PT 2011) in June. Beta launch is scheduled for summer 2011.

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: 6/14/2011
• Contact: research@apta.org
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