PT 2006 Attendees Join Physical Therapy’s New Editor in Chief and Editorial Board at a Session for Readers, Authors, and Reviewers* Taming Scorpions: How to Tell if a Clinical Study’s Results Are Important OR, The Dreaded Change Score You can’t know whether results are important—and relevant to practice—without statistics that give you the full story. For most people, however, reading about "confidence intervals," "effect size," and (worst of all) the "standard error of measurement" is like being dragged through a nest of scorpions. Fearless PTJ Editor Dan Riddle steps into the fire and explains it all to you, including hot new statistics like the MCID (minimal clinically important difference). Never get stung by statistics again! An openended discussion period follows, with Editor in Chief Rebecca Craik and PTJ’s new Editorial Board. Get comfortable with: - State-of-the-art methods for interpreting change scores in randomized trials
- State-of-the-art methods for interpreting change scores in cohort studies
- How to interpret change scores in case reports and case series papers
*Check www.ptjournal.org to confirm the date and time of this session and other Journal-sponsored sessions, or refer to the PT 2006 on-site program.
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