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- Title
Integrating routine clinical interventions with single-case methodology: Parallels, differences and bridging strategies.
- Authors
Tate, Robyn L.; Perdices, Michael; Wakim, Donna
- Abstract
Clinical practice offers the opportunity for the clinician to be a scientist-practitioner in the workplace. This, in turn, facilitates building practice-based evidence. But this can only occur if the effects of the interventions are objectively and systematically evaluated. To this end, single-case methodology is a valuable tool to implement an intervention in a scientifically rigorous manner and gather data on treatment effectiveness. It is possible to incorporate single-case methods into routine clinical practice by using a few simple strategies. This paper examines the ways in which single-case methodology departs from (a) routine clinical practice and (b) the familiar between-groups research design, such as the randomised controlled trial. It presents five practical strategies that will bridge the gap between routine clinical practice and single-case methodology. The Model for Assessing Treatment Effect is described as providing context for and a framework to self-evaluate the scientific rigour in clinical practice and benchmark service delivery.
- Subjects
RANDOMIZED controlled trials; TREATMENT effectiveness; EXPERIMENTAL design
- Publication
Brain Impairment (Cambridge University Press), 2020, Vol 21, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
1443-9646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/BrImp.2019.8