Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Professional Organizations & Practice Guidlines

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AAPM&R’s practice guidance development and clinical practice guideline review process is managed by the Evidence, Quality and Performance Committee (EQPC), and Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) Committee. The EQPC translates their systematic environment scans and evidence reviews into the development of Specialty Practice Guidance statements. The CPG Committee reviews, endorses and advocates for key guidelines developed by other organizations that are critical to the field of PM&R. Both Committees work to evaluate the current evidence base for physiatry, define standards/best practices and disseminate this information to advance the clinical guidance for the specialty.

As a component of an interdisciplinary organization, the EPC has reviewed the validity of nationally and internationally respected approaches to evidence synthesis. The EPC has selected the methodology developed by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) as the preferred way of developing guidelines for rehabilitation professionals. While the AAN method is the preferred basis, reviews and guidelines developed using other recognized evidence-based methods such as those of the Cochrane Collaboration, the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) collaboration, Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE), the Institute of Medicine, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will also be considered for ACRM endorsement. The EPC also develops materials and standards to improve the synthesis of research information and its application to rehabilitation in practice.