Evidence-based care is vital to the effective treatment of patients. While busy schedules tend to lend towards only paying attention to emerging changes when continuing education credits are involved, sometimes it is best to go straight to the source. Below are some articles focusing on both discipline-specific and general research. Regardless of your own discipline, having an understanding of other disciplines can be of great benefit when ordering services for a patient.
"Claim Costs, Musculoskeletal Health, and Work Exposure in Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, and Occupational Therapist Assistants: A Comparison Among Long-Term Care Jobs." Physical Therapy 99.2 (2019): 183-193.
"Primary Care and the Physical Therapist: Lessons From the Military." (2018).
"Physical Therapist Professional Appearance: From the Patients' Perspective." (2017).
"Physical Therapist Assessment of Mobility Predicts Risk of Hospitalization." (2019). APA
"Disparities in home health service providers among Medicare beneficiaries with stroke." Home health care services quarterly 35.1 (2016): 25-38.
"Community use of physical and occupational therapy after stroke and risk of hospital readmission." Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 99.1 (2018): 26-34.
"Medication Management in Home Health Care Occupational Therapy Practice." The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy 6.4 (2018): 5.
"Can occupational therapist-led home environmental assessment prevent falls in older people? A modified cohort randomised controlled trial protocol." BMJ open 8.9 (2018): e022488.
"Home‐and community‐based occupational therapy improves functioning in frail older people: A systematic review." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65.8 (2017): 1863-1869.
"Expanding Use of Telepractice in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology." Volta Review 112.3 (2012).
"Speech-language pathology: A home care viewpoint." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 9.2 (2000): 99-106.
"Knowledge, confidence, and practice patterns of speech-language pathologists working with adults with traumatic brain injury." American journal of speech-language pathology 27.1 (2018): 181-191.
"Home health agency characteristics and quality outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with rehabilitation-sensitive conditions." Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 99.6 (2018): 1090-1098.
"Pediatric Dysphagia: Survey Results Describing Speech-Language Pathologists' Education and Experience." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups (2020): 1-10.
"The critical role of social workers in home-based primary care." Social work in health care 53.4 (2014): 330-343.
"Patient safety and quality in home health care." Patient safety and quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US), 2008.
"The future of home health care: a strategic framework for optimizing value." Home health care management & practice 28.4 (2016): 262-278.
"Is there a social worker in the house? Health care reform and the future of medical social work." Health & social work 37.3 (2012): 183-186.
"Core Competencies for Pain Management: Results of an Interprofessional Consensus Summit." Pain Medicine 14, no. 7 (July 2013): 971-981.
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“Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs),” NIH Pain Consortium,
“Pain,” Medline Plus, U.S. National Library of Medicine, updated Oct. 23, 2018,
“Pain Assessment,” University of Iowa, 2018,
"Acute Pain Management in Older Adults." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 43, no. 2 (Feb 2017): 18-27.
"Acute Pain Assessment Tools: Let Us Move Beyond Simple Pain Ratings." Current Opinion in Anesthesiology 28, no. 5 (Oct 2015): 565-569.
"Assessing and Treating Pain in the Cognitively Impaired Geriatric Home Care Patient." Home Healthcare Now 35, no. 2 (Feb 2017)
Noninvasive Treatments For Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians. Annals of Internal Medicine 166, no. 7 (April 2017): 514-530.
"Management of Chronic Pain in Older Adults." BMJ 350, no. h532 (Feb 13, 2015): 1-10.
"Measurement of Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Evaluation in Community-Based Persons with Serious Illnesses." Journal of Palliative Medicine 21, no. S2 (Mar 2018): S43-S51.
"Cultural Religious Competence In Clinical Practice." StatPearls (2019).