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Evidence-Based Practice

Practice Guidelines and Evidence-Based Clinical Resources

Your home base for clinical guidance across the lifespan. Browse the topics below for evidence-based OT practice guidelines, systematic review briefs (formerly Critically Appraised Topics), intervention ideas, and infographics.

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What are Practice Guidelines?

AOTA's Practice Guidelines are topic-specific recommendations that practitioners use to guide client care. Based on the findings of systematic reviews, practice guidelines present clinical recommendations and tools for translating knowledge to guide your practice. 

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AOTA Practice Guideline Development

The AOTA Practice Guidelines are developed from systematic reviews of evidence, based on guiding questions. Information from the research is extracted, appraised, and synthesized into the clinical recommendations table. The practice guidelines are then written by translating the the information identified in the clinical recommendations table.

The information from the systematic reviews is also used to develop HOT Evidence Infographics, Evidence-Informed Intervention Ideas, and Evidence Connection articles.

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