With the movement toward patient-centered care, understanding the patient’s values and perceptions has become an increasingly important part of the health care delivery process (Rao, 2015). Use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures is now a common practice in health care,
The ability to recruit an adequate number of participants can be an important factor in a study’s success, helping to ensure that the work can be completed within planned budgets and timelines, and with sufficient statistical power. While every study
Educational programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) have at their core a dual and complementary mission: (1) to teach fundamental knowledge about normal and disordered communication and (2) to teach and assess clinical skills. Clinical placements in ‘real-world’ settings
Historically, university training clinics were established as the primary clinical training units of departments that offer graduate degree programs in speech-language pathology and audiology. These clinics serve as a valuable source of clinical exposure for students to clients of a
The evidence-based practice movement has sought to tighten the link between research and practice. This movement has placed increased scrutiny on the quality and rigor of clinical practice research to ensure that the ‘tools of the trade’ are being objectively validated
The following slides accompanied a presentation delivered at ASHA’s Clinical Practice Research Institute. The Logic of a Staged System of Clinical Research Let’s examine the fundamental logic underpinning a staged system of clinical research (that is easily applied to patient-oriented
Evidence Based Practice and the Knowledge Transfer Problem Within EBP, knowledge transfer refers to the adoption and usage of evidence — produced through clinical research — by clinical practitioners to influence their clinical decisions and actions. Challenges to successful knowledge
In the discipline of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), intervention research aimed at informing clinical practice has proceeded for nearly a century now without a clear set of expectations about what the necessary, or at least desirable, steps ought to
ASHA publishes four peer-reviewed scholarly journals and one peer-reviewed scholarly review journal pertaining to the general field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. These journals are the American Journal of Audiology; American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. These journals have the collective mission of disseminating research findings, theoretical advances, and clinical knowledge in CSD.
