Essentials of Rehabilitation Research: A Statistical Guide to Clinical Practice

Meet the need for evidence-based practice! Enhance your clinical practice and your understanding of rehabilitation literature through applied statistics. Step-by-step, this interactive learning experience makes clinically relevant statistical procedures easier to understand, organize, interpret, and use. Statistical procedures with direct clinical application guide you through patient assessments, selecting the best tools for your practice, enhancing your understanding of predicting prognosis and responders to treatment, and outlining a method to critique clinical practice guidelines. This reader-friendly, real-world approach helps you’ll meet the need for evidence to support your practice, gain a deeper understanding of clinical research, and systematically evaluate patient outcomes.As an added bonus, you’ll have online access to the video tutorials from the bonus CD-ROM packaged with the print version. These videos are step-by-step guides through statistical analysis exercises using data sets that are also included. Each data set contains hypothetical patient data that is similar to real rehabilitation research. You’ll know when to use the videos when you see the special callout boxes throughout the text. They’ll guide you through clinical exercises that simplify the use of statistical software programs, including Excel, NCSS, and SPSS in addition to others.