BOC
This Practice Standard requires Athletic Trainers to implement measures to prevent or mitigate injury, illness, and disability.
What is Prevention?
To formulate a clear clinical question for EBM, four components are needed: the patient population, the intervention/treatment, a comparison group, and this.
What is the outcome of interest?
This Strength of Recommendation (SOR) grade is assigned to recommendations based on level 1 evidence with consistent results across studies, strongly suggesting implementation.
What is Grade A?
Documenting all procedures and services in accordance with legal requirements falls under this BOC Practice Standard.
What is Organization and Administration?
Following the search for evidence, this third EBM step involves determining the validity and usefulness of the retrieved information, which can be the most challenging.
What is critically appraising the evidence?
Factors such as blinding, random allocation, adequate sample size, and spectrum of patients contribute to this characteristic of evidence, which the SORT favors.
What is higher-quality evidence?
The Practice Standard that mandates AT services and treatment be rendered under physician direction or in collaboration, aligned with training and state regulations.
What is Direction?
This EBM step involves integrating validated and important research findings into a specific clinical situation, always considering the clinician's judgment and patient preferences.
What is applying the evidence to clinical practice?
Even if a recommendation receives a Grade C, such as applying an automatic external defibrillator within 3 minutes of a sudden cardiac event, clinicians should still follow it due to this ethical implication.
What is it that makes designing a randomized controlled trial to withhold the intervention unethical?
Developing and implementing treatment and rehabilitation strategies with defined short-term and long-term goals is part of this Practice Standard.
What is Therapeutic Intervention?
The final step in the EBM process requires clinicians to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the process and identify areas for improvement.
What is evaluating the performance of EBM?
This SOR grade is given to recommendations based on inconsistent or limited-quality patient-oriented evidence, implying that the clinician must make an individual decision regarding its importance.
What is Grade B?
This document mandates that BOC credential holders act in a professionally responsible manner in all athletic training services, with non-compliance potentially leading to disciplinary action.
What is the Code of Professional Responsibility?
A significant challenge for implementing EBM in sports medicine and athletic training is the scarcity of these specific types of studies.
What are outcome effectiveness studies?
Evidence-based practice integrates a clinician’s expertise (internal evidence), findings from published research (external evidence), and these patient-specific factors.
What are the contextual experiences, values, and preferences of patients (patient evidence)?