Abstract
Several guidelines have been published with the goal of increasing the usefulness
of reports of clinical research. Although such guidelines may clarify key features
of study design, the way in which rehabilitation treatments themselves are described
continues to be problematic and limits the ability to replicate research, synthesize
evidence across studies, or apply these treatments in practice. Lohse et al report
little improvement in the description of rehabilitation treatments in recent years,
with particular limitations in the description of comparison or standard-of-care treatments.
This commentary explores the kind of published treatment descriptions that would be
most useful in supporting evidence synthesis and clinical implementation and examines
the degree to which a developing conceptual framework—the Rehabilitation Treatment
Specification System—might support improvements in research reporting.
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Publication history
Published online: April 09, 2018
Footnotes
Supported by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (contract no. ME-1403-14083).
The funders had no role in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Disclosures: none.
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