The information presented here
has been supplied by individuals who attended a meeting that took place at the
WCPT Congress in June 2003. Contact people are happy to be contacted for further
information and are keen to seek opportunities for collaboration and avoid inappropriate
duplication of effort. Their areas of interest are also listed in order to facilitate
collaboration and information sharing.
The information
has been supplied by the individuals, not necessarily on behalf of their Member
Organisations, so there may be additional people and projects taking place in
the Member Countries listed. You are advised to contact the named person for
further details or check the Organisation's website.
Below the chart
there are links directly to EBP related activities of WCPT's Member Organisations.
A few are provided to start with and more will be added. The focus has been
on sites that have free access and are not restricted to members of the organisations.
WCPT cannot
take responsibility for the accuracy of the information supplied nor how up
to date it is. The information presented does not provide a comprehensive view
of all EBP related projects being undertaken by WCPT's Member Organisations,
but is designed to facilitate information sharing and collaboration. The list
should be viewed as a work in progress and we are keen to hear of additional
work that can be added.
If you have
a project or interest you would like to see listed, especially on behalf of
a Member Organisation, please forward your details to info@wcpt.org
Thank You.
| Member Organisation,
Country |
Projects |
Interests |
| Australian
Physiotherapy Association, Australia
Website:
www.physiotherapy.asn.au/index.cfm
Contact:
Rob Herbert
Email:
R.Herbert@fhs.usyd.edu.au |
Production
and dissemination of clinical practice guidelines
Critically
Appraised Papers in Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
Provision
of full text electronic access to key journals
The Centre for Evidence-Based
Physiotherapy produces PEDro (www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au) |
Sharing
guideline with other member organisations.
Facilitating implementation
of evidence-based practice |
| Austrian
Physiotherapy Association, Austria
Website:
www.physio.at
Contact:
Hedi Binder
Email:
Hedi.binder@physio.at |
Clinical
Practice Guidelines
Quality
assurance
Post-basic education |
Sharing
clinical guidelines with other associations
Search engines e.g. PEDro |
Canadian Physiotherapy
Association, Canada
English Website: http://www.physiotherapy.ca/enghome.htm
French Website:
http://www.physiotherapy.ca/francais/index.htm
Contact:
Maria Judd
Email: mjudd@physiotherapy.ca
|
Outcome measure
book: Physical Rehabilitation Outcome Measures: A Guide to Enhanced
Clinical Decision Making Second
Edition; By Elspeth Finch, Dina Brooks, Paul Stratford, and Nancy Mayo.
Published in 2002. For more information email: orders@physiotherapy.ca
Inventory of systematic reviews,
meta-analyses and clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy
CPA Physiotherapy Services
Accreditation Program |
Promoting and
facilitating implementation of evidence-based best practice
Outcome measures
Using the results of outcomes
measurement to demonstrate the effectiveness of physiotherapy services
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Developing
clinical guidelines - sharing with other associations
Post-basic
education - specialisation
Promoting EBP in university
curricula |
Quality
assessment and assurance
EBP
Clinical
guidelines
Outcome
measures
Search
engines
Education
Research |
| The
Association of Danish Physiotherapists, Denmark
Website:
www.fysio.dk
Contact:
Annette Wandel
Email:
aw@fysio.dk |
Developing
national guidelines
Quality assessment of outcome
measures |
|
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|
Promoting
EBP in Landspitali University
Hospital
Electronic
quality manual in rehabilitation department at Landspitali
University Hospital
and ways to use EBP and clinical guidelines to enhance quality
Promoting EBP in University
curricula |
Learning
more about EBP
Increasing
EBP knowledge among Icelandic PTs
Clinical guidelines |
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Outcome
measures
Sharing guidelines |
| Associazione
Italiana Fisioterapisti (AIFI), Italy
Website:
www.aifi.net
Contact:
Michela Bozzolan
E-mail:
bzh@unife.it |
Promote
EBP in education at a national level
Collaborate with GIMBE
(Italian Organisation for EBM) to design structured courses for PTs
about EBP |
Education |
| Order
of Physiotherapists in Lebanon, Lebanon
Website: www.optl.org/index.html
Contact:
Georges Boueiri
E-mail:
gboueiri@cnet.com.lb |
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Translation of Dutch Clinical Guidelines
into English on CDROM |
Implementation
of guidelines
Development
of EBP attitude
Sharing
research outcomes and questions
Education in EBP |
|
Website: www.physiosa.org.za
|
|
Teaching
EBP
Developing / translating
outcome measures |
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Publication
of 2nd Research and Clinical Effectiveness Strategy in 2004
On-going
development of clinical guidelines:
- Physiotherapy Management of Persistent Low Back Pain (Spring 2007)
- Chronic low back pain (completion end 2005)
- Osteoarthritis (work to start 2004; completion 2005)
- Whiplash (completion Spring 2004)
Process
in place for the endorsement and publication of high quality clinical
guidelines (5 endorsed to date)
Development
of audit packs for CSP-endorsed clinical guidelines.
Standards
of physiotherapy practice - revision of in 2004
Database
of outcome measures on CSP website
Recording,
analysis of and learning from unexpected effects of treatment
Collaboration with government-funded
organisations that have programmes for the development of multi-professional
clinical guidelines |
Sharing
clinical guidelines
Implementation
of clinical guidelines and standards
Using
the results of outcomes measurement to demonstrate the effectiveness
of services
Using evidence-based practice
and clinical effectiveness to demonstrate continuing competence to practice |
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Scotland:
1. National
Allied Health Professions Clinical Effectiveness Project,
2. Scottish
Physiotherapy Clinical Effectiveness Forum
CSP Research and Clinical
Effectiveness Committee |
EBP
Clinical
Effectiveness
Direct
Access
Developing & evaluating
mechanisms for facilitation and implementation of EBP |
|
|
Systematic reviews and randomised
controlled trials in Health Technology Assessment - dissemination and
implementation |
Epidemiology
Systematic
Reviews
Quality
Assessment in Research
Models of Research and
EBP |
|
|
Chair of CSP-led whiplash guidelines development group |
Developing
research and EBP capacity
Standardised data collection |
|
Website: www.apta.org
Contact: David
Scalzitti
Email: davidscalzitti@apta.org
|
Hooked on Evidence
www.apta.org/hookedonevidence/index.cfm
APTA CONNECT
Outpatient Physical Therapy
Improvement in Movement Assessment Log (OPTIMAL)
Guide to Physical Therapist
Practice
|
Provide access
to existing research
Establish a bridge between researchers
and clinicians
|
Others
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Promoting
EBP workshops and lectures for students as well as professionals/teachers
Disseminating
systematic reviews (and metanalysis) and randomized clinical trial in
post-graduation courses
Coordinating
the Brazilian Physical Therapy Evidence-based Centre at State University
of Londrina
Helping,
with language translation (for Portuguese), systematic reviews and guidelines
Doing a screening of Brazilian
physical therapy publication (articles in the ISI and also in the
national journals) in the last 15 years |
Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Guidelines
Systematic
Reviews
Metanalysis
Outcome Measures |
