What the A’s? How to be an Evidence-based Practice Clinician

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a way of approaching decision making about clinical issues. It means making decisions with the best and most current knowledge possible from science and from practice, with a provider’s expertise, experience, life knowledge and intuition completely integrated, and with patient collaboration, where the healthcare provider values what the patient wants as the outcome for this decision. The 5A’s – Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, Assess/Adjust – is a framework to assist provider’s implementing EBP decision-making. This framework will be described in the presentation with examples being from the literature on chiropractic care for children in sports.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the details to complete each of the five components of the evidence cycle.
Identify resources to be able to better apply the evidence cycle within a clinical setting.

This course is co-sponsored by the ACA Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics

The following states require the participant to enter the course approval number on their certificate:

California: View the list of course approval numbers and categories for California approved courses.
Missouri: View the list of course approval numbers and categories for Missouri approved courses.

Katherine Pohlman, DC, M.S. Ph.D

Parker University, Director of Research

Katherine Pohlman, D.C., M.S. Ph.D. is Director of Research and Professor at Parker University. She is currently the Vice Chair of the World Federation of Chiropractic – Research Council, Vice Chair of the Research Workgroup for Chiropractic Future, and a Senior Fellow of the Chiropractic Academy of Research and Leadership (CARL) program. She received Researcher of the Year in 2020 from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), was the 2023 World Congress of Women Chiropractors’ Leadership recognition, and has served as the Vice President of the ACA’s Council on Women’s Health and the ACA’s Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics. Dr. Pohlman received her Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree and M.S. in Clinical Research from Palmer College of Chiropractic and her Ph.D. in Pediatrics from the University of Alberta. She is an expert in study methodology, as well as in patient safety and effectiveness of chiropractic care in special populations including children, adolescences, pregnant/post-partum individuals, and overall women’s health.