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Evidence Based Rehabilitation
This is an opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills about how best to evaluate and demonstrate the effectiveness of your rehabilitation practice.
The course has a generic focus on how and why to measure practice and is highly relevant to all health professionals working in rehabilitation. The day will include both theoretical and practical learning and will use and build on your own expertise in the clinical setting. The workshop is open to people from all professions but will have a specific focus on the rehabilitation of function and movement. This will provide an opportunity to practice using and critiquing some of the outcome measures commonly used in this field..
Course Content
Using the WHO ICF framework in clinical practice
What is the ICF
Defining patient problems in terms of impairment, activity and participation
Worked case study examples
Influence of environment and personal factors on health
Using the ICF to plan and evaluate treatment interventions
Measuring rehabilitation outcomes
Why measure
Types of measurement tool
Levels of data
What do we mean by valid, reliable and responsive measures and why should we care?
Properties of outcome measures
Validity – types and issues of validity
Reliability – workshop on inter and intra-rater reliability
Standard operating procedures
Responsiveness
This course will be attended by all professionals working in rehabilitation practice -
- Physiotherapists
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Podiatrists
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