PTNarrative ReviewJournal of neurologic physical therapy : JNPT2017

Single-Case Design, Analysis, and Quality Assessment for Intervention Research.

Michele A Lobo, Mariola Moeyaert, Andrea Baraldi Cunha, Iryna Babik

PMID 28628553

WHAT IT FOUND

No patient-care finding is available here.

The article reviews single-case study designs and analysis tools, not intervention outcomes.

What this paper is

This is a methodological review of single-case study designs, analysis techniques, and quality appraisal tools for rehabilitation research. It describes examples of studies and suggests how to judge them, but it reports no patients, no new intervention results, and no outcome data. There is no clinical finding here to change patient care.

The easy way to misread this

Do not read the single-case examples as evidence that a treatment works for your patients. They are illustrations of research design, not new clinical findings.

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