Course Description

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this content area, the therapist will:

• Apply the principles of diffusion of innovation to the widespread adoption of PT innovations
• Develop and design a quality improvement project utilizing the TRIP model.
• Organize and write an administrative case report in approved format.
• Undergo up to three iterations of the case report with their advisor in a collegial manner.
• Describe and justify the use of quality improvement and administrative case reports in evidence-based practice.
• Identify a value-based practice innovation to utilize for your proposal.
• Differentiate various information sources, identify applicable databases, and perform an efficient literature search.
• Analyze and synthesize the relevant professional literature to produce an appropriate literature review and financial justification for the proposal.
• Construct outline of proposed case report including relevance, setting, design, implementation plan, and outcomes assessment.
• Construct clear operational definitions of all variables used.