A Team Approach: Demonstrating Sport Rehabilitation's Effectiveness and Enhancing Patient Care Through Clinical Outcomes Assessment

摘要

Sports medicine, and sport rehabilitation in particular, embodies the spirit of the team approach to health care, which has traditionally been framed as the athletic trainer, physical therapist, and physician working together to improve the health of the patient. That team approach remains a vital element of optimizing patient care. However, we would like to propose a new kind of team based not on interprofessional boundaries but on intraprofessional boundaries. This new team consists of a partnership between clinicians, educators, and scholars and is vital for successful evidence-based practice (EBP) and evaluation of patient outcomes.