Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health: Moving the Field Forward (Executive Summary).
Walter R Frontera, Jonathan F Bean, Diane Damiano, Linda Ehrlich-Jones, Melanie Fried-Oken, Alan Jette, Ranu Jung, Rick L Lieber, James F Malec, Michael J Mueller, Kenneth J Ottenbacher, Keith E Tansey, Aiko Thompson
PMID 28422639WHAT IT FOUND
Conference summary of NIH rehabilitation research priorities.
No study methods or outcomes are reported, so there is no finding to act on.
What this paper is
This is an executive summary of conference panels from the National Institutes of Health rehabilitation research meeting. It reports discussion themes, examples of ongoing work, and future research priorities, but no methods, participants, outcomes, or results from a clinical study. There is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the panel themes or cited examples as evidence that a treatment works. The article reports conference discussion, not study results.