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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Evidence-based physiotherapy: what, why and how? | |
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| What is 'evidence-based physiotherapy'? | |
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| Why is evidence-based physiotherapy important? | |
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| History of evidence-based health care | |
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| How will this book help you to practise evidence-based physiotherapy? | |
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| What do I need to know? | |
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| Relevant clinical questions | |
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| Refining your questions | |
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| What constitutes evidence? | |
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| What constitutes evidence about effects of interventions? | |
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| What constitutes evidence about experiences? | |
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| What constitutes evidence about prognosis? | |
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| What constitutes evidence about the accuracy of diagnostic and screening tests? | |
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| Finding the evidence | |
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| Search strategies | |
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| Finding evidence of effects of interventions | |
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| Finding evidence of prognosis and diagnostic tests | |
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| Finding evidence of experiences | |
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| Getting full text | |
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| Finding evidence of advances in clinical practice (browsing) | |
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| Can I trust this evidence? | |
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| A process for critical appraisal of evidence | |
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| Critical appraisal of evidence about the effects of intervention | |
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| Critical appraisal of evidence about experience | |
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| Critical appraisal of evidence about prognosis | |
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| Critical appraisal of evidence about diagnostic tests | |
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| What does this evidence mean for my practice? | |
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| What does this randomized trial mean for my practice? | |
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| What does this systematic review of effects of intervention mean for my practice? | |
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| What does this study of experiences mean for my practice? | |
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| What does this study of prognosis mean for my practice? | |
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| What does this study of the accuracy of a diagnostic test mean for my practice? | |
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| Clinical guidelines as a resource for evidence-based physiotherapy | |
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| What are clinical guidelines? | |
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| History of clinical guidelines and why they are important | |
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| Where can I find clinical guidelines? | |
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| How do I know if I can trust the recommendations in a clinical guideline? | |
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| When and how should new therapies be introduced into clinical practice? | |
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| The life cycle of a medical innovation | |
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| A case study | |
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| Proposal for a protocol for introduction of new therapies | |
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| Anticipation of some objections | |
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| Making it happen | |
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| What do we mean by 'making it happen'? | |
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| Changing is hard | |
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| Evidence-based implementation | |
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| Evidence-based physiotherapy in the context of continuous quality improvement | |
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| 'Ami on the right track? | |
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| Assessing patient outcomes: clinical measurement | |
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| Assessing the process of care: audit | |
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| Concluding comment | |
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| Index | |