PDPT 55700: Clinical Administration 1

Clinical Administration

Brainstorming

Determine and define the clinical problem

· Frame this in a question format as it will help you determine the key concepts: population, intervention and outcome.

Generate a list of keywords using PICO

· Patient or Population (what is the disorder or disease)

· Intervention

· Comparison (if any)

· Outcome (what you are hoping to assess)

Finding Books: print and electronic

Recommended Reading: Nosse, Larry J. Management and supervisory principles for physical therapists.Baltimore, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010. CALL NUMBER: RM713 .N674 2010

Here are some helpful pages scanned from the book, Management and Supervisory Principles for Physical Therapists. The pages include charts and worksheets on topics such as licensing, strategic planning, recruitment and hiring, budgets, business and financial planning.

Search the library's catalog to find books (print and electronic) on writing a business plan

Here are 81 results on business plans
Here are 26 results on business writing
Here are 5 results on Business writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc

Search eBrary to find ebooks on writing a business plan

eJournals

There are over 50 full-text peer-reviewed journals that we subscribe to at Ithaca College that focus on physical therapy. If you're trying to find a particular article, try searching our list of Journals that we subscribe to as chances are pretty good that we'll have it online.

Finding Scholarly Articles

MEDLINE (EBSCO)
A comprehensive journal index to over 4,600 biomedical journals, with links to some full-text. This is the Cadillac of all health and research databases. Be sure to use the many helpful limiters such as: gender, age, publication type and clinical queries.
CINAHL
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) indexes nursing and allied health journals back to 1982, with links to some full-text. This is a great tool for finding education, health promotion, and psychosocial health articles along with research articles. Be sure to use the many limiters such as: gender, age, publication type and clinical queries.
PEDro - Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Contains abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physical therapy. Most trials have been rated for quality.
Business Insights: Essentials
Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Premier (Original Interface)
Business topics: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. SWOT analysis on selected companies.

Tutorial

Here's a brief tutorial on how to search for economic census data by sector (click this link if the youtube video is problematic):

Citing Sources Using AMA

AMA manual of style : a guide for authors and editors (Ref R119 .A533 2007) is the style guide for the American Medical Association. The AMA style is used in the field of medicine and other related fields such as public health. The in-text citations are numbered superscripts that correlate with the numbered references in the bibliography that appear in the order that they are cited. At present, the manual is in its 10th edition (2007). Below are some useful links for learning more about the citation style:

American Journal of Public Health's AMA-Style and References provides information about in-text citing and the reference list.
Long Island University's AMA Citation Guide is color coded and easy to read.