Evidence-Based Practice in Sport and Exercise: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Research: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Research / Edition 1

by Brent L. Arnold PhD, ATC, FNATA, Brian Schilling PhD, CSCS

Overview

What is the evidence?

Why do you need it?

How do you evaluate it?

How do you use it to make decisions?

 

Put the evidence to work for your patients.

Master the knowledge and clinical decision-making skills you need to provide the very best care for your clients…based on the evidence.

Step by step, you’ll learn how to find and evaluate the existing research and determine whether there is sufficient clinical evidence to support a specific treatment and whether it'should be recommended or used to address a client’s need. A wealth of examples drawn from the literature illustrates its role in everyday practice.

An access code inside new printed texts unlocks your student-focused questions that guide and reinforce learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803640283
Publisher:	F.A. Davis Company
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Professor and Chair, Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada

Table of Contents

I. Introduction to Applying Research
1. What is Evidence-Based Practice?
2. Answering a Clinically Relevant Question
3. Outcome Measures in Health and Exercise Science
4. Outcome Properties
II. Establishing Cause and Effect
5. Experimental Research
6. Clinical (Therapeutic) Trials
III. Other Methods in Clinical Research
7. Diagnostic Statistics
8. Epidemiologic Methods in Sport and Exercise Science
IV. Synthesizing and Evaluating Research
9. Research Synthesis
10. Evaluating Research Quality
Appendices
A. Selected Journals
B. Professional Organization Research-Based Stands and Statements
C. The Disablement Continuum