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Systematic Review - Effective return to work after ABI
24th February 2020
Systematic Review - Effective return to work after ABI
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Improving the ability of employers to communicate with brain injured workers
24th February 2020
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Back2Work at the Cutting Edge
24th February 2020
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The PEER Review: Practice and Evidence for Excellence in Rehabilitation Research
Every year, practitioners and policy-makers are exposed to more and more demands for evidence to underpin their decision-making. They could spend most of their time reading systematic reviews and still not be much wiser about what to do. And who has time for that much reading in their busy working life? As a keen rehabilitation practitioner, funder or researcher, the challenge of keeping up-to-date with the evidence can be overwhelming. Applying that evidence in practice can be even more daunting.
Our aim at The Hopkins Centre is to contribute to all these areas of EBP. Articles in The PEER Review focus on research evidence, practitioner-based knowledge and end-user preferences. There are several categories of articles that each bring different views:
"Evidence": These articles focus on the latest systematic reviews in rehabilitation. Using plain English, we demystify the evidence and translate it into useable knowledge for practitioners, policy-makers, and funders. If you are time-poor, but still want to keep up-to-date about evidence, these articles should be helpful. | "Perspectives": Stories written by people who have experienced disability. They share wisdom about what helps and usually have strong themes of dignity, access, and respect. These articles can assist practitioners and policy-makers in thinking about their services from a different perspective. They might be reflections, experiences, ideas, and possibilities that are refined after years of managing a disability. They offer an easy way to keep in touch with the views of service users. |
"Practice": Sharing ideas about good practice across disciplines and sectors. Knowledge about what really works in rehabilitation or can actually be implemented is accumulated over years of practice. When practitioners retire or resign, they are unlikely to have systematically shared their knowledge with the future generation of practitioners. These articles are an opportunity for practitioners from the acute hospitals, the community and the private sector to share knowledge about what works and how to address key challenges they face every day. | "Spotlight": Short descriptions of innovative and creative services or interventions that may or may not have evidence but are working in the community. These articles describe how an innovation began, its journey and how it is influencing the challenge it set out to address. They may share the stories of innovators and founders who have often overcome seemingly insurmountable barriers to put new ideas into practice. Spotlight articles may also focus on researchers, practitioners or leaders in the sector who have made a contribution through their activity. |
"Updates": These articles focus on a specific project that is either in its early stages, or producing results that need to be translated rapidly into practice or policy. Updates can occur at any time in a project lifecycle. They could explore a problem or idea to canvas the interest of other researchers, practitioners, consumers or policymakers. They could describe a method to see if others can share experience or ideas. They could present the results of an analysis or the translation that has occurred during or as a result of a project. |
To make it easier to access our publications, we have combined all our regular articles into this single online platform. Now you can access new information any time you wish. We hope you enjoy and benefit from one or more of these articles. We welcome content from everyone, so please let us know if you would like to contribute or have any ideas about topics and content that would be of interest.
To contribute to PEER, email us at hopkinscentre@griffith.edu.au. Don't forget to get social and follow us on twitter @hopkins_centre
PEER Entries
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Published 6th August 2020
Robotic assisted rehabilitation therapy for enhancing gait and motor functi...
Published 11th June 2020
Time between acquired brain injury and admission to community-based rehabil...
Published 11th June 2020
Sleep Disturbance and Disorders within Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation Setti...
Published 28th May 2020
Bring fronts back: A research agenda to investigate the health and well bei...
Published 6th May 2020
Exploring the efficacy of housing alternatives for adults with an acquired ...
Published 5th May 2020
People with disabilities with suspected novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infect...
Published 22nd April 2020
The effect of COVID-19 on spinal cord injuries
Published 22nd April 2020
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COVID-19: THE FRONT LINE Recognising our health and community workers
Published 1st April 2020
Social connection in a time of uncertainty, fear, physical distancing and t...
Published 1st April 2020
COVID-19 and supporting People with disabilities: what you need to know
Published 26th March 2020
Guide to working from home by Microsoft during COVID-19 outbreak
Published 26th March 2020
Talking to children about social (spatial) distancing
Published 26th March 2020
The Dignity Project: Citizenship and dignity in times of austerity
Published 26th March 2020
A sporting hero with passion for his community
Published 24th February 2020
Anti-Discrimination Policy in Queensland: Rules for Employers
Published 24th February 2020
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Published 24th February 2020
HORSES AND HAY BALES: Putting the fun back into rehabilitation
Published 24th February 2020
Improving the ability of employers to communicate with brain injured worker...
Published 24th February 2020
Integrating physical exercise into rehabilitation
Published 24th February 2020
Systematic Review - Effective return to work after ABI
Published 24th February 2020
Published 24th February 2020
Published 24th February 2020
Embrace diversity and rethink disability
Published 8th August 2019
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Published 5th August 2019
From MurderBall to Rehabilitation Provider
Published 19th July 2019
SPORT - Identity, Empowerment, Inclusion
Published 16th July 2019
Published 10th July 2019
The importance of sports participation for people with disabilities
Published 2nd July 2019
Empower Golf for Australian's of all abilities
Published 3rd June 2019
Published 21st May 2019
Published 16th May 2019
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Leading change. Changing lives.
Published 1st May 2019
Stay up to date on chronic pain
Published 30th April 2019
Improving the ability of employers to communicate with brain injured worker...
Published 26th April 2019
Award winning employer of choice in diversity and equality
Published 1st April 2019
The value of exercise and practical ways of integration sport into rehabili...
Published 27th March 2019
Is Australian vocational rehabilitation keeping pace with the changing empl...
Published 20th March 2019
Cyborg Athletes: the super-humans of the future
Published 19th March 2019
Diversity improves health service
Published 14th March 2019
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Application of the ICF to sport and exercise in rehabilitation
Published 4th February 2019