C S Scherrer, J L Dorsch
The evolving role of the librarian in evidence-based medicine
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
reflective clinical reasoning cr believed play crucial role achieving efficient therapy process supported evidencebased approaches improve patient outcomes aim study evaluate cr process german manual therapists mts using cr skills dutch mts reference crosssectional study evaluated cr process diagnostic ability german mts dutch mts served reference standard due experience direct access cr skills assessed using diagnostic thinking inventory dti questionnaire measuring diagnostic competence descriptive inferential statistics conducted compare groups subgroup analyses performed analyze influence work experience years level education cr 396 manual therapists 229 german 167 dutch completed dti dutch mts revealed higher dti sumscores compared german mts p 001 cohens 41 subgroup analyses regarding professional education revealed significant differences dti sumscores within german mts groups subgroup analyses regarding professional experience differences moderate effect size reached german dutch novice mts favor dutch novice mts p 001 cohens 62 german novice mts experienced german mts favor experienced german mts p 001 cohens 6 results suggest academically educated german dutch mts well experienced german dutch mts similar terms hypotheticaldeductive cr skills turn german novice mts seem use hypotheticaldeductive processing lesser extent compared dutch novice mts experienced german mts turn may support hypothesis level professional experience education significant impact development hypotheticaldeductive cr skills