Evidence Based Practice for Physical Therapy

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

A public resource for summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

Presented by the University of Alberta

From the American Physical Therapy Association

From the World Confederation for Physical Therapy

University of Minnesota Libraries
Slideshow presentation with tutorial questions

From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

Tutorials from the Physiotherapy Evidence Database

From the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

D. L. Sackett, W. M. Rosenberg, J. A. Gray, R. B. Haynes, and W. S. Richardson
PDF available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine

K A McKibbon
PDF available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine

Diagnostic Test: Calculates Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPV, LR+, and LR.
Prospective Study: Calculates Relative Risk (RR), Absolute Relative Risk (ARR), and Number Needed to Treat (NNT).
Case-control Study: Calculates Chi-squared and OR.
Randomized Controlled Trial: Calculates Relative Risk, Absolute Relative Resk, Number Needed to Treat, Chi-squared, and OR.

Determines diagnostic test characteristics: Prevalence, sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, etc.
Determines post-test probabilities given pre-test probabilities & test characteristics.