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Understanding North American yoga therapists' attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice: A cross-national survey

Publication Title:

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

INTRODUCTION: Little is known about the adoption of evidence-based practice (EBP) by yoga therapists (YTs). OBJECTIVE: To determine the attitudes, skills, training, use, barriers and facilitators to the use of EBP amongst North American YTs DESIGN: Cross-sectional, descriptive survey METHODS: Self-identified YTs practicing in North America were invited to participate in an online survey. YT attitudes, skills, training, utilisation, barriers to use, and facilitators of EBP use were measured using the 84-item Evidence-Based practice Attitude and utilization SurvEy (EBASE).

Author(s):

Sullivan, Marlysa

Leach, Matthew

Snow, James

Moonaz, Steffany

Determining the need and utilization of radiotherapy in cancers of the breast, cervix, lung, prostate and rectum: A population level study

Publication Title:

Radiotherapy and Oncology: Journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

PURPOSE: Determining the appropriate rate of radiotherapy (RT) utilization is important for health care planning and resource allocation. The difference between the observed and the appropriate RT rate is influenced by the choice of a criterion based benchmarking (CBB) or evidence-based estimates (EBEST) measure.

Author(s):

Shack, Lorraine

Lu, Shuang

Weeks, Lee-Anne

Craighead, Peter

Kerba, Marc