Reason Therapists Choose Not to Use EBP - 1 views
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meganthompson on 01 Aug 14This blog post, written by a pediatric occupational therapist, highlights the push for occupational therapy practitioners to utilize evidenced based practice interventions. The therapist highlights some of the common reasons individuals choose not to utilize evidenced based interventions in their practice. Some common reasons practitioners choose not to use evidenced based practice include limited access to new research due to an unwillingness to purchase research articles, lack of motivation after a hard day's work, not enough time to interpret new research and draw conclusions to alter one's practice, and unwillingness to alter one's routines/intervention techniques. However, the therapist eloquently highlights the fact that if we want patients and their families to shell out money for co-pays and insurance companies to reimburse us for the services we provide we must be able to prove that the services we provide are effective. Thus, we must utilize interventions that have research to back their effectiveness.
