Journal readership amongst Australian physiotherapists: a cross-national replication.

This study, a replication of one carried out in England, describes a survey of journal readership by physiotherapists in hospital practice in Australia. The results reveal that, besides a high and widespread readership of newsletters, more than 90 per cent of respondents read journals other than the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. There was moderate but extensive readership of other physiotherapy literature, while readership of non-physiotherapy literature was infrequent but widespread.

The assessment of pain: an audit of physiotherapy practice.

This study concerned the adoption of scientific method by the physiotherapy profession, with pain measurement as the research focus. It involved an audit of 1010 patient records from four hospital physiotherapy departments in England, to determine how pain was assessed and recorded. The results show that while pain assessment was recorded in most of the cases audited, there was no record of reassessment in 29 per cent of cases.