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- Title
Development and Application of Clinical Prediction Rules to Improve Decision Making in Physical Therapist Practice.
- Authors
Childs, John D.; Cleland, Joshua A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of clinical prediction rules (CPRs) as tools to improve decision making in clinical practice. These rules have the potential to improve outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, and decrease costs of care in physical therapist practice. CPRs can be useful tools to save practitioners valuable time and to better inform patients about their diagnosis or prognosis. Their development has helped to reverse common misperceptions among health care professionals that diagnostic tests such as radiographs or laboratory tests provide hard data useful for decision making.
- Subjects
CLINICAL medicine; MEDICAL care costs; PATIENT satisfaction; PHYSICAL therapist &; patient; PHYSICAL therapy; PHYSICAL therapists; DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; MEDICAL radiography
- Publication
Physical Therapy, 2006, Vol 86, Issue 1, p122
- ISSN
0031-9023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ptj/86.1.122