PHTY211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bed Rest, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Nerve Root
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Research and evidenced based physiotherapy: discuss what evidence based practice (ebp) is and why it is important for physiotherapy. Intra-rater reliability: the ability of a single examiner to obtain identical measurement during separate performances. Inter-rater reliability: the ability of 2 or more examiners to obtain identical results with the same test. Validity: extent to which an instrument measures what is intended to measure (i. e. how well a test measures what it claims to measure) Evidence based physiotherapy is physiotherapy informed by relevant, high quality clinical research. Good clinical decisions are also informed by: patient preference, therapist"s pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e k(cid:374)owledge. Other factors influencing the clinical practice of ebp. Metropolitan vs rural vs remote health care. Culture: outline the steps for ebp, formulate a question. Example: a patient with acute low back pain. Refining the question (p) patient: adult with acute low back pain (i) intervention: bed rest (c) comparative intervention: advice to stay active (o) outcome: pain and disability.
