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JL Echternach, EdD, PT, is Eminent Professor, School of Community Health Professions and Physical Therapy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

Congratulations, Dr Hayes, on attacking a very important and difficult subject. I can think of no similar article in the physical therapy literature concerning how a physical therapist might deal with the possibility of measurement error in the clinical environment.

In the literature review of the article, the author cites two references stating that physical therapists have concrete cognitive styles and that this may indicate a need for structure.^1,2 Whether this assumption is still true is questionable. The article by Payton et al¹ was published in 1979; the article by Rezler and French² was published in 1975. It seems fairly obvious that students and physical therapists have both changed in the intervening time period, and this assumed need for structure may no longer be true. The same argument could be made concerning the references about how physical therapists use journals.^3,4...

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