Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Mar 30 2023

 

Present:   Justine Dee, Nancy Gell, Emily Houston, Jennifer Oshita, Liliane Savard, Adam Sprouse Blum, Connie van Eeghen, Liz Winterbauer (8)

 1.                   Warm Up: Where’s the March “out like a lamb” by now?  Crocuses are on their way…

2.                   Justine's scoping review, focusing on Physical Therapy for survivors of torture (SOT), looking for feedback on the intro, methods and results

a.       Goal: PT Journal, but this is competitive.  Other journals are “torture” focused.

b.       Is “evidence-based” a binary condition or a scale of low to high?  If a scale, represent the evidence-based results that way.

                                                   i.      Consider a method of evaluating evidence: each study design has associated criteria

1.       Liliane: Evidence-Based Medicine How to Practice and Teach EBM Sackett, Strauss, Richardson…

                                                 ii.      A scoping review does not require assessment of evidence but is recommended

c.       Scoping reviews to not typically include outcomes, but this will help the field move

                                                   i.      Consider combining Tables 2 and 3

d.       Introduction

                                                   i.      Focuses on refugees; literature results are broader (SOT)

                                                 ii.      1^st para is great – really grabs attention

                                               iii.      2^nd para: separate what we know about torture vs PT

1.       Stronger bridge for last sentence: what is the gap in the literature being filled?

2.       Spell out SOT

                                               iv.      Differentiate more clearly: psychologically informed trauma vs trauma informed approach, which is also different from the bio-psycho-social model

                                                 v.      Remove unnecessary jargon: nociplastic, somatic…

e.       Methods

                                                   i.      Include med librarians and process included with them

1.       Reduce the terms to eligibility criteria; move the terms to an appendix

2.       Excluded SLR that referred to same papers being reviewed separately

                                                 ii.      Identify that protocol was pre-determined and not registered

                                               iii.      Analysis plan should match results reported, which can be organized around the article’s message

f.        Results

                                                   i.      Organize based on the message of the article, e.g. the use of evidence-based treatments

                                                 ii.      Table 2

1.       Organize by what the message is, e.g. strength of evidence, rather than alpha

2.       Consider power of study as well, which may be biased

3.                   Next week:  TBD

 Recorded by: CvE