Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will:

• Diagram different types of clinical questions related to intervention effectiveness, diagnosis accuracy, prognosis, and the client experience.
• Formulate strategies to identify a knowledge gap in a clinical setting and then form a searchable question to address that knowledge gap.
• Create a search strategy to identify evidence available to answer the clinical question and be able to utilize the search strategy.
• Critically appraise the quality of the evidence found utilizing standardized appraisal tools.
• Synthesize the evidence into a comprehensive summary.
• Explain the concept of shared decision making and how to present research evidence to clients.
• Apply methods for integrating clinical expertise, research evidence and client values and preferences into a plan of care for occupational therapy.
• Develop a plan for disseminating the knowledge summary across practice settings.
• Analyze that barriers, both personal and organizational, to knowledge translation.
• Formulate a measurement strategy for the outcomes of knowledge translation interventions.