Abstract
Dijkers MP, Bushnik T, Heinemann AW, Heller T, Libin AV, Starks J, Sherer M, Vandergoot
D. Systematic reviews for informing rehabilitation practice: an introduction.
The research literature that rehabilitation clinicians need to be familiar with has
become too large for anyone to read, and numerous published studies are too complex
for many practitioners to understand and fruitfully use. One method to keep up with
new findings is through systematic reviews. Systematic reviews can be effective tools
that help guide rehabilitation practice by identifying the best research that provides
the evidence for enhanced clinical decision-making. This article describes how systematic
reviews are created, indicates where rehabilitation clinicians may find them, and
refers to a resource that may be of use in evaluating their quality and applicability.
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EBP (evidence-based practice), NCDDR (National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research), SR (systematic review)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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The authors wrote this article as members of the Task Force on Systematic Reviews and Guidelines. The Task Force was convened by the National Center for the Dissemination of Rehabilitation Research, which was supported by a grant to SEDL (grant no. H133A060028) from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education.
No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.
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