Journal article
Identifying and Prioritizing Clinical Guideline Recommendations Most Relevant to Physical Therapy Practice for Hip and/or Knee Osteoarthritis
Pek Ling Teo, Rana S Hinman, Thorlene Egerton, Krysia S Dziedzic, Kim L Bennell
JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY | J O S P T | Published : 2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Physical therapists are key providers of conservative management for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis (OA), yet not all guideline recommendations are tailored to their scope of practice. OBJECTIVE: To identify and prioritize the most important recommendations relevant to physical therapy practice for hip and/or knee OA. METHODS: International physical therapists (n = 132) were invited to participate in an online modified Delphi survey, followed by a priority-ranking exercise. A total of 63 recommendations were extracted from 2 recent high-quality clinical guidelines. In 3 Delphi rounds, the panel identified those recommendations they considered to be most relevant to physical thera..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (Centres of Research Excellence)
Awarded by Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Awarded by Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research
Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
The University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee granted ethical approval for this study (Ethics ID 1750150). This work was supported by funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Centres of Research Excellence number 1079078). Ms Teo is supported by a PhD stipend scholarship from the Australian Government Research Training Program. Dr Hinman is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100175), and Dr Egerton is funded by the Centres of Research Excellence and The University of Melbourne. Dr Dziedzic is partially funded by the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands and by a Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship (KMRF 2014-03-002) from the National Institute for Health Research. Dr Bennell is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellowship (number 1058440). The funders had no role in the development of the study method, interpretation of the results, or reporting. The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or financial involvement in any organization or entity with a direct financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in the article.