The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System: Implications for Improvements in Research Design, Reporting, Replication, and Synthesis.
Jarrad H Van Stan, Marcel P Dijkers, John Whyte, Tessa Hart, Lyn S Turkstra, Jeanne M Zanca, Christine Chen
PMID 30267666WHAT IT FOUND
There are no patient results to act on.
This is a proposed framework for describing rehabilitation treatments, not evidence that any treatment works.
What this paper is
This is a conceptual paper describing the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System, a proposed way to break rehabilitation treatments into ingredients, targets, and aims. It uses an example from a published fall-prevention study to show how reporting could be more specific, but it reports no patients, no outcomes, and no tested treatment effect. There is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System as proof that a treatment works. It is a proposed reporting framework. Its benefits still need empirical demonstration.