There is an expectation that all occupational therapists will be evidence-based practitioners. This paper reports on an education intervention that has helped therapists working in clinical practice to respond to the challenges posed by evidence-based practice. The intervention was developed for a group of clinicians who had already undertaken an evidence-based practice course. The aim was to enable them to apply evidence-based practice skills to their practice settings. The intervention, which used the problem of evidence-tinged practice as a focus, is described and the ten commandments generated by the clinicians involved are presented for others as a potentially useful tool.
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