Canadian Physiotherapists Integrate Virtual Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Purpose: To examine Canadian physiotherapists' experiences in adapting their delivery of patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine the level of strain on the profession and barriers and enablers to virtual care and provide strategies to support future virtual care implementation.

Methods: From May to October 2020, a series of eight cross-sectional survey cycles were distributed every 2-4 weeks through branches and divisions of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, social media, and personal networks.

Should we give patients what they want? Patient expectations and financial pressures need to be addressed to increase uptake of evidence-based practice.

Contextual factors such as patient expectations and financial pressures are overlooked challenges for Physiotherapists (PTs) and other rehabilitation professionals trying to implement evidence-based practice (EBP), particularly in private practice settings. In today's hypercompetitive pain management market, PTs may risk detrimental impacts to their reputation and livelihood if they do not give patients what they want, even if what they want does not align with clinical guidelines and research evidence. The aim of this professional practice paper is to shed light on these real-world challenges and encourage discussion among the PT community about strategies to increase uptake of EBP that involve multiple stakeholders such as PT training programs, professional organizations, researchers and clinic owners, which all have a role to play in supporting the translation of evidence into practice in our profession.

Hands-off? Lessons from high-touch professionals about going virtual.

The COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed how many businesses operate and connect with their customers. Previously unheard-of government restrictions and sheltering-in-place requirements forced most professional services to transition to remote delivery methods (e.g.

This Place Is Full of It: Towards an Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale.

This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale (OBPS) using two samples of employees of organizations in various sectors. The scale is designed to gauge perceptions of the extent of organizational bullshit that exists in a workplace, where bullshit is operationalized as individuals within an organization making statements with no regard for the truth. Analyses revealed three factors of organizational bullshit, termed and .

Using artificial intelligence to examine online patient reviews.

Healthcare consumers are increasingly turning to online sources such as educational websites, forums and social media platforms to share their experiences with medical services and to demystify the uncertainties associated with undergoing various procedures. This study demonstrates a non-invasive way of understanding the feelings and emotions that consumers share via electronic word of mouth. By using IBM Watson, a content analysis tool that harnesses artificial intelligence, we show how a large amount of unstructured qualitative data can be transformed into quantitative data that can be subsequently analysed to generate novel insights into what patients are sharing about their healthcare experiences online.