1. Do we have a count of the number of articles related to our practice getting published in various journals every month? Just too many.
2. Do we actually get to flip through at least some of those regularly and get the learning bytes out of them? Tell gold from garbage?
That’s where these reviews come in. Summarizing the findings of a few relevant articles published the preceding couple of months, those that serve up something to learn from and to apply in clinical practice/research, and in our own lives.
Anand Viswanathan is a physician in Rehabilitation Medicine. These journal reviews are personal opinions of the author, and are not intended to be directly used as healthcare guidelines. Reader discretion, as always, is recommended.
“These musings are an expression of a self-learning process in interpreting scientific research, and the reader is encouraged to take these with a generous pinch of salt. Articles that find a mention here are those that are likely to be relevant to the practice of rehabilitation medicine as I understand. Non-mention does not mean to undermine clinical significance otherwise, but would imply just my ignorance. Any tinge of irreverence in these passages might not be entirely unintended. What is written about here would be constrained by the availability of full texts, electronic or hardcopy (The paywalls, grrr). Do send in no-holds-barred feedbacks to make the learning more purposeful and mutual.
Conflicts of interest: Nothing to do with the industry. I’m likely to be biased in favor of evidence based healthcare, and against clinical studies that do not have clinically relevant hard endpoints as outcome measures.”
Rehab Journal Review 