RESEARCH & GUIDELINES
Expert Clinical Benchmarks (ECB) is the industry leader in physical medicine outcomes research. Read about the results of some of these studies:

Patient Satisfaction and Physical Therapy:

  • 2002: Developing and Validating a Tool to Assess Patient Satisfaction
  • 2005: The MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction:
    A Psychometric Analysis
  • 2005: Continuity of Care and Patient Satisfaction
  • 2007: Spanish-language Version of the MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction: Preliminary Validation

Prediction and Prognosis in Physical Therapy:

  • 2007: Clinical Prediction Rules: What are they and what do they tell us?
  • 2007: How to Use Research Studies to Help Make Prognostic Judgements


Expert Clinical Benchmarks Guidelines

In addition, ECB has developed the first-ever physical therapy specific treatment guidelines for:

Low Back
Cervical/Thoracic
Hand/Wrist
Lower Extremity
Upper Extremity