Using criteria-based interview models for assessing clinical expertise to select physiotherapists at major multisport games.

Background: Benchmarking is an established means of identifying levels of specialist practice and competence-based interviews are a tool used to facilitate this. The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) provided an opportunity to introduce a pragmatic approach to assess expert behaviour in large numbers of volunteer physiotherapists.

Aim: To test inter-tester repeatability of an assessment matrix used to score clinical expertise in a sporting context, followed by reporting on the findings for physiotherapy selection.

Bird-repellent effects on bait efficacy for control of invasive mammal pests.

Background: Repellents to reduce crop damage from birds and mammals have been investigated extensively, but their efficacy in reducing risk to non-target birds in aerial poisoning operations for control of mammal pests is less known. We assessed the impact on bait acceptability, palatability and kill efficacy for captive wild rats (Rattus rattus L.) and possums (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) of adding bird repellents (anthraquinone and d-pulegone) to baits used for their control in food choice trials.

The role of sports physiotherapy at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Background: There is a lack of information on the utilisation of physiotherapy services at the Olympic Games.

Aim: To better understand the athlete and non-athlete requirements of the physiotherapy services at the Olympic Village Polyclinic during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Methods: From 16 July to 14 August 2012, physiotherapy encounters for athletes and non-athletes (National Olympic Committee (NOC) team officials, coaches, team managers, workforce, Olympic family, technical officials and press) were recorded on the ATOS electronic medical records system at the polyclinic in the main Athletes' Village in Stratford.

Sport psychology education: a preliminary survey on chartered physiotherapists' preferred methods of training delivery.

Objective: To gain an insight to the existing suggestions and recommendations on chartered physiotherapists' preferred methods of delivery for further training in sport psychology.

Participants: 22 delegates (14 women, 8 men) from the 2006 Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine/International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy annual conference (response rate 53.7%).

Views of chartered physiotherapists on the psychological content of their practice: a follow-up survey in the UK.

Objective: To assess, on a national level, the views of chartered physiotherapists with regard to the psychological content of physiotherapy practice.

Design: A postal survey to a national list of sport injury and physiotherapy clinics was employed.

Participants: A total of 361 responses were included in the descriptive statistical and qualitative analyses.

Ecotoxicity of sodium fluoroacetate (compound 1080) to soil organisms.

Sodium fluoroacetate (compound 1080) is applied as a vertebrate pesticide in New Zealand for control of introduced mammalian pests. Despite its widespread use, little is known about the soil ecotoxicity of 1080. Therefore, the hazard of 1080 to soil invertebrates, plants, and soil microorganisms was evaluated in a series of controlled laboratory tests.