Books
ASSBI Bookstore
ASSBI is a multidisciplinary society dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with brain impairment and their families. One of ASSBIās aims is to provide high quality assessment and treatment resources via ASSBI Resources. Through their online bookstore, ASSBI provides hundreds of books from over 30 different categories relating to brain injury.
To browse and purchase books from the ASSBI Bookstore, click here.
The Risk of Bias in N-of-1 Trials (RoBiNT) Scale: An Expanded Manual for the Critical Appraisal of Single-Case Reports
The Risk of Bias in N-of-1 Trials (RoBiNT) Scale: An Expanded Manual for the Critical Appraisal of Single-Case Reports
By Robyn Tate, Ulrike Rosenkoetter, Donna Wakim, Linda Sigmundsdottir, Janet Doubleday, Leanne Togher, Skye McDonald and Michael Perdices
Conducting treatment research with groups of patients with brain disorders can be very difficult. It can be hard to find enough people suffering the same problem at the same time in the same place available for treatment. People may have the same problem but differ from each other in important ways making it hard to see group changes.
A flexible solution is to use a single-case experimental study. In this only a very few patients are treated and each individual is carefully monitored to see how they change once treatment commences. While such single-case designs are flexible, they must be conducted rigorously, in order to prevent potential bias influencing results. Often-times, it is actually quite difficult to work out how well the study was conducted because there are so many approaches to single-case research.
The PsycBITE Group has developed the RoBiNT Scale that makes it possible to judge how well a single-case experimental study has been conducted. This scale not only helps readers judge how good a study is, but it also provides clear guidance in how to conduct a good study. The manual provides examples of good, mixed and poor studies, focusing on fifteen different aspects of a study, for example, whether the study used an acceptable design, whether raw data was provided, whether assessments were conducted in a non-biased fashion and how data was analysed.
To purchase the RoBiNT Manual, please contact Robyn Tate: robyn.tate@sydney.edu.au.
Dysphagia Post Trauma
Dysphagia Post Trauma
By Elizabeth C. Ward and Angela T. Morgan
Dysphagia Post Trauma is a premier book in the Clinical Dysphagia Series. The authors are world renown for their research and clinical insights into the often-challenging patterns of dysphagia caused by a variety of traumatic conditions. This book, like all the books in this series, is written with the practicing clinician in mind. Traumatic brain injury and all other traumatic injuries that influence swallowing are described. The emphasis on evaluation and treatment is described so clearly and thoroughly that a clinician can review relevant chapters and then confidently approach the bedside of even the most complicated patient. This is the one critical swallowing book for those clinicians with traumatically injured men, women, and children on their caseloads.
To Purchase: www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_dpt.htm
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