title: Evidence-Based Practice and Chiropractic Care.
abstract: Evidence-based practice has had a growing impact on chiropractic education and the delivery of chiropractic care. For evidence-based practice to penetrate and transform a profession, the penetration must occur at 2 levels. One level is the degree to which individual practitioners possess the willingness and basic skills to search and assess the literature. Chiropractic education received a significant boost in this realm in 2005 when the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine awarded 4 chiropractic institutions R25 education grants to strengthen their research/evidence-based practice curricula. The second level relates to whether the therapeutic interventions commonly employed by a particular health care discipline are supported by clinical research. A growing body of randomized controlled trials provides evidence of the effectiveness and safety of manual therapies.
authors.affiliation: University of Western States, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lefebvre
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haas
keywords: chiropractic; curriculum; effectiveness; evidence-based; evidence-based medicine; evidence-based practice