From evidence to community practice in work rehabilitation: the Quebec experience.

Background: The causes of prolonged disability due to back pain are multiply determined, involving medical, social, and environmental factors. Possible solutions to the problem of prolonged back pain disability have emerged from recent research but few efforts have been made to transfer evidence-based programs to large community settings.

Objective: This article describes three phases of the process of transfer of evidence from rehabilitation research to community practice in the province of Quebec.

Reliability associated with the abstraction of data from medical records for inclusion in an information system for persons with a traumatic brain injury.

Objective: This article presents the intra- and inter-rater reliability associated with the extraction, from medical rehabilitation charts, of data to be included in a head injury information system currently under development.

Methods: A data collection form was developed to facilitate and standardize the data extraction. Two clinicians extracted information pertaining to 231 variables of the system from 15 charts of persons receiving rehabilitation services following a head injury.