A qualitative study of barriers to the implementation of a rheumatoid arthritis guideline among generalist and specialist physical therapists

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1292-1305

  van Bodegom Vos, Leti ^a   Verhoef, John ^a,b   Dickmann, Margot ^b,c   Kleijn, Marjon ^b,d   van Vliet, Ingrid ^b,e   Hurkmans, Emalie ^a   van der Wees, Philip ^f,g,h,i   Vliet Vlieland, Thea ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c Institute of Physical Therapy   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Institute of Physical Therapy   (Netherlands)

^f Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy   (Netherlands)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPECIALIZATION;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL THERAPISTS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84867066385     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110097     Document Type: Article

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