The Center for O&P Learning & Evidence-Based Practice

The Need: Virtually everyone in O&P has had the experience of an insurer refusing to pay because you couldn’t demonstrate that a specific device is more effective than some other treatments. We recognize that O&P is playing catch-up to other fields in having outcomes research and evidence-based guidelines/research to support what we do. Huge resources allocated in the stimulus package for comparative effectiveness research serves to underscore the need.