BOC Standards
This organization certifies Athletic Trainers to ensure public access to quality healthcare professionals and is accredited by the NCCA.
What is the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC)
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?
This concept is defined as the "integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to make clinical decisions."
What is Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)?
Unlike traditional narrative reviews, these types of literature reviews employ scientific methods, quality assessment, and quantitative analysis to summarize data from multiple studies.
What are systematic reviews or meta-analyses?
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) publishes these documents to offer clinical practice recommendations based on the best available external evidence.
What are position statements?
The BOC's primary purpose for its Practice Standards is to establish these for holders of the ATC® credential.
What are essential duties and obligations?
Ensuring quality patient care regardless of demographic factors and protecting patients from undue harm are key components of these responsibilities.
What are Patient Care Responsibilities?
EBM primarily focuses on this type of research.
What is patient-centered and clinically relevant research?
This online resource is a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, renowned for its rigorous systematic reviews, available online and on CD-ROM.
What is the Cochrane Library?
This practical system aids readers in quickly evaluating the relevance and validity of evidence that supports clinical recommendations.
What is an evidence-grading taxonomy?
The BOC's mission is explicitly focused on providing these types of programs to safeguard the public.
What are credentialing programs?
Engagement in lifelong learning and adherence to BOC recertification policies are requirements under this section of the Code of Professional Responsibility.
What is Competency?
According to the sources, one of the most important reasons for using EBM in athletic training is to achieve this.
What is to improve the care delivered to patients?
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?
The NATA has specifically adopted this grading system to provide context for the evidence supporting recommendations found in its position statements.
What is the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT)?
These are three of the five core values upheld by the BOC.
What are Integrity, Professionalism, Fairness, Transparency, and Service (any three)?
This aspect of the Code of Professional Responsibility specifically addresses avoiding fraudulent practices, ensuring accurate billing, and maintaining liability insurance.
What are Business Practices?
EBM promotes this cognitive process among clinicians, requiring them to scrutinize interventions and apply rigorous standards to scientific data.
What is critical thinking?
Clinicians are cautioned against using general internet search engines for medical information because they frequently retrieve this.
What is nonscientific and low-quality information?
The SORT system was particularly developed to help practicing clinicians evaluate external evidence derived from this specific type of research.
What is clinical research?
This Practice Standard requires Athletic Trainers to implement measures to prevent or mitigate injury, illness, and disability.
What is Prevention?
The Code of Professional Responsibility states that Athletic Trainers who engage in research must primarily ensure this for participants.
What is protect the human rights and well-being of research participants?
This is the initial step in the five-step process for practicing Evidence-Based Medicine.
What is defining clinically relevant questions?
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?
Increases in range of motion or strength improvements are examples of this type of outcome, which generally rates lower on the SORT LOE scale as they don't solely indicate changes in health status.
What are disease-oriented outcomes?