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Research Committee Chair:

Diane Wrisley, PT, Ph.D., NCS
Research , VPTA
ph: 434-544-8884
wrisley.d@lynchburg.edu

Validating clinical practice by documenting outcomes and efficacy of physical therapy is key to our future as a profession. Clinicians and academicians can combine efforts to answer, in a logical fashion, questions of interest to our profession and the scientific community. If you are interested in clinical research, have an idea (most programs require a research project and you could probably find an interested student and faculty mentor to work with you), contact any of the educational institutions in your area with your ideas for collaboration! The purpose of this section of the VPTA web site is to provide a forum for clinicians, academicians, and students to share ideas and to develop collaborative research projects. A second purpose is to provide a source for information on the intelligent consumption of the professional literature, research grant information, and information on research design and statistics. If you have an interesting link you would like to share with your colleagues, please submit here for inclusion on this web site.

 
Call For Abstracts

 

VPTA
Annual Conference

APTA
Annual Conference

APTA
Combined Section Meeting

Meeting Date:

October 15-17, 2010
Herndon, Va

June 8-11,2011
Maryland

February 9-12, 2011
New Orleans, LA

Abstract Deadline:

September 10, 2010

September 22, 2010

June 2, 2010

Call for abstracts: Application Form

Click Here

Annual Conference: PT 2011

Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) 2011

 

Research Links
Evidence-based practice websites
  New Research Resource for Components
Each month, dozens of rehabilitation-oriented research articles are published by physical therapists and their colleagues in refereed journals. A sampling of that research now appears on APTA's Web site, arranged by subject area, then in alphabetical order by journal title. Visit the new Current Research in Physical Therapy page (or, from www.apta.org, click on Research, then on Current Research in Physical Therapy). The page provides an easy-to-read compilation of contemporary physical therapy research. Citations link to publisher-provided abstracts and are organized by practice or subject categories. The page will be updated regularly.
Netting the Evidence
www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk
The first stop for anyone looking for materials to assist them in finding high quality evidence, learning how to critically assess the literature, identifying databases and evidence-based journals, and implementing EBP in a variety of health fields. This comprehensive database serves as a resource center for identifying evidence-based materials.
Pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Pubmed: provided by the National Library of Medicine. It contains all Medline citations back to the mid 1960's. This database is free, contains a powerful search engine, and provides simple steps to allow you to narrow or broaden your search as needed. In general, if a full-text version of an article is available, the link to the full text (or publisher from which full-text can be purchased) will be provided.
Pedro:
http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au/
An initiative of the Center for Evidence-based Physiotherapy, University of Sydney, Australia. This database contains a quality assessment of over 3000 systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials of research particularly applicable to physical therapy.
University of Chicago Library homepage
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/medindex.shtml
This library website helps walk you through the process of finding clinical literature. It provides summaries of ways to search the literature, critically assess the literature, and strategies for asking a 'searchable' clinical question. It also provides links to the on-line tutorial for medline and search tools for medline.
Websites on Statistics
  Power analysis
http://statpages.org/
From Statsoft, Inc: Provides a detailed description of power analysis and it's use in research.
  Power analysis calculator
http://ebook.stat.ucla.edu/calculators/powercalc/
A tool to assist you in calculating the power needs of your study
  Statistical Analysis resource page
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html
A website for statistical analysis resource links
 

SPSS Tutorials
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/spss.php
A website for SPSS Tutorials from Texas A&M University

Sample Letter to Copyright Owner Requesting Permission to Copy
http://www.umuc.edu/library/sample.shtml

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.dhhs.gov/reference/index.shtml#statistics


   
 
Research Committee Officers  
 
Research
Diane Wrisley, PT, Ph.D., NCS
Lynchburg College
434-544-8884
wrisley.d@lynchburg.edu

Valley District Research
Mike Krackow
540/224-4478
mkrackow@jchs.edu

Central District Research
Peter Pidcoe
804/828-0234
804/828-8111
pepidcoe@hsc.vcu.edu

 
Northern District Research
Julie Ries
julie.ries@marymount.edu

Mountain District Research
Jack Echternach
jechtern@netzero.net

Blue Ridge District Research
Andrea Fergus
540/665-5545
540/665-5530
afergus@su.edu

Tidewater District Research
Martha Walker
757/683-4519
757/683-4410
mlwalker@odu.edu

 

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