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.
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.
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.
Children & Youth, 5 to 21 Years
Adults with Neurological Conditions
For adults with stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Parkinson's disease
Read the Practice Guidelines in AJOT
Infographics
Systematic Review Briefs (AJOT)
ADLs & IADLs:
- Read the systematic review briefs in AJOT Volume 77, Supplement 1
Work, Leisure, & Social Participation:
- Interventions to Improve Work and Leisure Poststroke
- Interventions for Social Participation for Adults Poststroke
Caregivers:
- CBT Techniques for Caregivers of People With Stroke
- Multimodal Interventions for Caregivers of People with Stroke
- Education and Support Interventions for Caregivers of People with Stroke
Chronic Conditions
OT interventions for clients with heart disease, chronic lung conditions, diabetes, and kidney disease.
