Course teached as: B019842 - EBP IN FISIOTERAPIA 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHYSIOTHERAPY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
During this course, the steps in the process for implementing evidence-based clinical practice will be addressed. Therefore, topics as searching for evidence, their critical assessment and their applicability in daily clinical practice will be covered.
Herbert, R., Jamtvedt, G., Hagen, K. B., & Mead, J. (2014). Fisioterapia basata sulle evidenze. Edra Masson.
Learning Objectives
- Acquire knowledge and skills on the theoretical and methodological basis of Evidence-based Practice
- Acquire knowledge and skills to convert the need for information into appropriate clinical-care questions
- Acquire knowledge and skills to implement strategies, methods and tools to search for evidence on biomedical databases
- Acquire knowledge and skills to critically assess and interpret evidence
- Acquire knowledge and skills to apply evidence to the individual patient
Prerequisites
Prerequisites approved by the Degree Course Council
Teaching Methods
Lectures, classroom exercises with reading of articles
Type of Assessment
The final exam consists in an oral examination to verify the acquisition of knowledge and skills described in the objectives
Course program
- Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
- Research question according to the PICO approach
- Biomedical databases
- PEDro database
- Internal validity
- PEDro Score
- Clinical relevance
- External validity
- Consistency
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyzes
- Concepts of measurement in physiotherapy
- The psychometric properties of the outcome measure