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The Difference Between Knowing and Applying

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As the complexity of physical therapy interventions grows and the options for examination and evaluation increase, the knowledge that practitioners must obtain and carry with them threatens to reach unmanageable levels. Therefore, like other members of the health care team, we are highly dependent on our literature and our ability to quickly and in a clinically practical manner extract salient information for the management of our patients. But this challenge—the retrieval of evidence for everyday practice—is only one part of the daunting task we face.

In dialogues about evidence-based practice, we often forget that most proponents of this approach believe in something more than the application of data in a vacuum. As Sackett et al¹ state,

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.

Clinical expertise and patient values are critical to the way we care for our patients and how we . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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