Fostering evidence-based practice in community-based rehabilitation: Strategies for implementation

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Current practices and factors affecting evidence-based occupational therapy practice for patients with dementia in Japan

“…EBOT is becoming an integrated guiding framework for the practice of occupational therapy (Law et al., 2004; Law & Baum, 1998). As with EBP, EBOT consists of the following five steps (Buchanan et al., 2015; Sackett, 1997): (1) Convert information needs into answerable questions, (2) Find the best evidence to answer the question, (3) Critically appraise the evidence, (4) Apply the evidence in practice, and (5) Evaluate practice. For occupational therapists, practicing EBOT is essential for improving the clinical efficacy (Salls et al., 2009), and is becoming even more important with the anticipated rapid increase in dementia populations (Canevelli et al., 2016; Illiffe, 2015; Torke, 2014).…”

Responsible knowledge use: The importance of critical appraisal in occupational therapy research and publication

“…Evidence-based practice (EBP) encourages the generation of, and use of knowledge to guide practice which responds to the diverse occupational needs of the people we work with [2][3][4] . Critical appraisal is a key element of EBP and is the process by which we determine and critically evaluate the rigour, impact, relevance, and acceptability of the knowledge or information we have sourced to answer a focused question we have posed in relation to our teaching, research and/or practice [5][6] .…”