ReviewJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2009
Clinical information behavior of rehabilitation therapists: a review of the research on occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists.
Review in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- The process of obtaining information about COVID-19 among students of physiotherapy and rehabilitation department.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing High-Intensity Gait Training in Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation: A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Assessment of Online Patient Education Material About Dysphagia.Dysphagia · 2023Article
- Article
- Reported use of evidence in clinical practice: a survey of rehabilitation practices in Norway.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation and evaluation in a local healthcare setting.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- A qualitative study examining methods of accessing and identifying research relevant to clinical practice among rehabilitation clinicians.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2017Article
- Evidence-based practice, research utilization, and knowledge translation in chiropractic: a scoping review.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2016Article
- Therapists' use of the Graded Repetitive Arm Supplementary Program (GRASP) intervention: a practice implementation survey study.Physical therapy · 2014Article
- A characterization of clinical questions asked by rehabilitation therapists.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2014Article
- Clinical decision support must be useful, functional is not enough: a qualitative study of computer-based clinical decision support in primary care.BMC health services research · 2012Article
- Clinicians' expectations of Web 2.0 as a mechanism for knowledge transfer of stroke best practices.Journal of medical Internet research · 2012Article
- Evidence-based information-seeking behaviors of occupational therapists: a survey of recent graduates.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2011Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesThe review sought to synthesize existing research relevant to rehabilitation therapists' clinical information behavior and to identify gaps in evidence, particularly in comparison to what is already known about the information behavior of other health professionals, such as physicians.
methodsA literature review was conducted of both quantitative and qualitative research studies that included information on the clinical information behavior of occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists. Findings were organized according to a taxonomy of variables derived from the literature.
resultsFindings from seventeen studies, mostly surveys, conducted since 1990 demonstrate that very little is known about the clinical information needs of and information use by rehabilitation therapists. The sources most often consulted by rehabilitation therapists are printed materials (books and journals) and colleagues. Databases are consulted less often, and few rehabilitation therapists are aware of databases other than MEDLINE. DISCUSSION: Methodological flaws limit the generalizability and validity of much of the research conducted on the clinical information behavior of this population. More research is needed to better understand the clinical questions that arise in rehabilitation therapists' practice, reasons for consulting certain sources, and ways in which information seeking enhances evidence-based practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.