Clinical Research Agenda for Physical Therapy

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has developed a clinical research agenda that is designed to support, explain, and enhance physical therapy clinical practice by facilitating research that is useful primarily to clinicians. The Clinical Research Agenda was developed through a series...

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Published in:Physical therapy 2000-05, Vol.80 (5), p.499-513
Main Authors: Guccione, Andrew A, Goldstein, Marc, Elliott, Steve
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Benchmarking - standards
Evidence-based medicine
Foundations - economics
Humans
Medical research
Physical therapy
Physical Therapy Modalities - standards
Program Development
Research - economics
Research - standards
Research Design
United States
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Summary:The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has developed a clinical research agenda that is designed to support, explain, and enhance physical therapy clinical practice by facilitating research that is useful primarily to clinicians. The Clinical Research Agenda was developed through a series of conferences and extensive editorial and review processes and represents input from a large number of physical therapists. The Clinical Research Agenda represents questions that are believed to be important to clinical practice, the profession, and APTA. The themes of the Clinical Research Agenda were developed in an attempt to span the breadth of patient/client management beyond the particulars of any single question and to signal the full emergence of the physical therapist clinician as a scientific practitioner. Furthermore, the Clinical Research Agenda is intended to serve as a benchmark of the systematic progression of the scientific basis of the profession as a whole. As approved by APTA's Board of Directors, the Clinical Research Agenda will serve as the focal point for the research programs of the Foundation for Physical Therapy, as directed by the Foundation's trustees, and will be shared with other funding agencies and researchers outside of physical therapy as well.
ISSN:0031-9023
1538-6724
DOI:10.1093/ptj/80.5.499