The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is an individual membership professional organization representing more than 100,000 member physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs), and students of physical therapy.
PhysicalTherapist.com is a collaborative, informational website designed for the physical therapy community. Our owners are physical therapists, well-known and respected members of the profession.
PTNow provided online resources and tools to Advance Physical Therapist Practice from the American Physical Therapy Association.
EBP gathers together research evidence and the advice of experts. Below are links to some good, free resources:
Cochrane Reviews Summaries from the Cochrane Library, a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine research.
The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)/Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations A comprehensive database from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents.
Before you use a website for a paper or project, you should evaluate it and make sure it is appropriate for your class research. The continuum of credibility below shows which sources you should be skeptical of using and which are more appropriate, or you can use the CRAAP test below that to help you determine if your source is a good one.
CRAAP scorecard for evaluating sources. The categories for scoring include:
Each category can be scored from one to ten with one being the low score and ten being the high score. The higher the total score, the more reliable the website may be. Any source scoring below thirty might not be considered acceptable for academic research.
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