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VPTA Research Initiatives
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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.
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Call For Abstracts |
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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 |
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| Research Links |
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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Power
analysis
http://statpages.org/
From Statsoft, Inc: Provides a detailed description of power
analysis and it's use in research. |
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Power
analysis calculator
http://ebook.stat.ucla.edu/calculators/powercalc/
A tool to assist you in calculating the power needs of your
study |
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Statistical
Analysis resource page
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html
A website for statistical analysis resource links |
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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 |
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