Clinical Reasoning - 1 views
Roger, J.C., Holm, M.B. (1991). Occupational therapy diagnostic reasoning: A component of clinical reasoning. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, (45) 1045-1053. Doi:10.5014/ajot.45.11.1045...
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New Functional Limitation Reporting Requirements - 0 views
This article is from 2013, but I thought it was an interesting read. I feel I am constantly trying to understand billing more and more. This article discusses physical therapists (PTs), occupation...
Evidence Based Practice - 0 views
Authors state that the purpose of this study was to examine how U.S. occupational therapy practitioner's access and use clinically relevant evidence based practice research. Authors surveyed clinic...
Ethics - 2 views
Olson, L., & Moulton, H. (2004). Use Of Weighted Vests In Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practice. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 24(3), 45-60. The aim of this study was to investi...
Clinical Reasoning - 2 views
This article describes observations made in the AOTA clinical reasoning study, which is an ethnographic study of 14 occupational therapists working in a large teaching hospital. Concepts that frequ...
Clinical Reasoning - 2 views
This article discusses different viewpoints and elements to clinical reasoning. The article talks about applying theory and science to clinical reasoning. Then it breaks it down into disciplines....
Evidence-Based Practice - 0 views
The purpose of this study was to examine how U.S. occupational therapists access and use clinically relevant research results. Occupational therapists who responded noted they occasionally accessed...
Supervision - 0 views
Fieldwork is considered a very important aspect of the student experience. Although it is required in order to complete the OT curriculum, there has been shown to be a shortage of fieldwork placem...
Evidence-Based Practice - 0 views
This study examines how occupational therapists in the United States access and use clinically relevant research results. Clinically practicing occupational therapists who were members of the Ameri...
Narrative Nature of Clinical Reasoning in OT - 0 views
Mattingly, C. (1991). The narrative nature of clinical reasoning. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(11), 998-1005. This article explains the difference between the types of narrativ...
Occupational Therapy Service Use Among People Aging With Multiple Sclerosis - 0 views
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legark on 08 Aug 14This study examined the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions for clients with multiple sclerosis. Researchers examined 1,282 individuals between the ages of 45 to 90 with multiple sclerosis. The majority of individuals who had received occupational therapy services were very satisfied with their results and identified occupational therapy as a helpful service to promote health and overall well-being.
Daily sit-to-stands performed by adults - 0 views
This study may provide useful information during occupational therapy stroke rehabilitation interventions. The researchers investigated the number of sit-to-stands (STS) completed by typical commun...
Pilot study of a parent training program for young children with autism - 0 views
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The school that I am currently placed at is in the process of becoming the first PLAY Project certified and trained school. The PLAY Project Home Consultation (PPHC) program trains parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders using the DIR/Floortime model of Stanley Greenspan MD. Sixty-eight children completed the 8-12 month program. Pre/post ratings of videotapes by blind raters using the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) showed significant increases in child subscale scores. Translated clinically, 45.5 percent of children made good to very good functional developmental progress. There were no significant differences between parents in the FEAS subscale scores at either pre-or post-intervention and all parents scored at levels suggesting they would be effective in working with their children. Overall satisfaction with PPHC was 90 percent. Average cost of intervention was $2500/ year. Despite important limitations, this pilot study of The PLAY Project Home Consulting model suggests that the model has potential to be a cost-effective intervention for young children with autism.
Trigger Point and Myofacial Therapy - 0 views
Within outpatient therapy, it is common to see trigger points in muscles that cause pain, weakness and some restriction in ROM. A trigger point can be defined as "a focus of hyperirritability in a...
"Many Doctors Who Diagnose Alzheimer's Fail to Tell The Patient." - 0 views
The short media clip on npr.org discussed that many families of Alzheimer's patients feel as if they are not being served as well as they should be because these patients are not being told by thei...
What is Clinical Reasoning? - 0 views
Article: Mattingly, C. (1991). What is clinical reasoning?. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(11), 979-986. A lot of our professors have told us that as our career unfolds clinical reas...
Ethical Dilemmas in Family Caregiving - 0 views
Article: Hasselkus, B. R. (1991). Ethical dilemmas in family caregiving for the elderly: Implications for occupational therapy. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(3), 206-212. The articl...
The brief cognitive assessment tool (BCAT): cross-validation in a community dwelling ol... - 1 views
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Cognitive impairment is under-recognized and misdiagnosed among community-dwelling older adults. At present, there is no consensus about which cognitive screening tool represents the 'gold standard.' However, one tool that shows promise is the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT), which was originally validated in an assisted living sample and contains a multi-level memory component (e.g. word lists and story recall items) and complex executive functions features (e.g. judgment, set-shifting, and problem-solving). 75 community dwelling adults took the assessment and the MoCA with a cut off score of <26. A cut off score for the BCAT was 45 after utilizing the results of the study to balance sensitivity and specificity at .81 and .8 respectively. In addition scores can be separated to interpret BCAT memory and executive dysfunction component scores.