PTBS 51103: Pathology for Physical Therapists

PTBS 51103


Course Books

Required
Goodman, C., & Fuller, K., Pathology: Implications for the Physical Therapist, Saunders 3rd ed., 2008

Optional
McConnell, T., The Nature of Disease: Pathology for the Health Professions, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006 or 2007

Kumar V., Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Saunders, 8th ed., 2009

Defining Your Research Question

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)

Databases

PubMed
This is a great tool for finding primary biomedical journal articles with links to some full-text.
PubMed Clinical Queries
Special filters help you to find clinically based articles focused on therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis, clinical prediction guidelines, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or medical genetics.

AMA

AMA manual of style : a guide for authors and editors (print version at Ref Desk 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:

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