Rehabilitation Research Boot Camp: Errors, Fraud, & Outliers

Course overview

How is it that the peer review system associated with research allows so many papers that are erroneous, fraudulent, or outright incorrect results to be published? Primarily, it's related to a number of factors. This course provides examples of errors in research interpretation by breaking down examples as 1) fraudulent, 2) not fraudulent but erroneous, 3) markedly outside a normative finding (outlier) or 4) inappropriately translated into a care process, beyond what it was intended. The course gives methods to recognize each of these conditions to better navigate research findings. Evidence based practice requires one's ability to appropriately assimilate useful research into the care process. Challenges are present when a large percentage of research is not correct.