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The FCER Evidence-Based Resource Center and DCConsult^SM

DCConsult^SM is a new web site designed to meet the needs of the chiropractic profession. It is the tangible presence of FCER's Evidence-Based Resource Center (EB-RC). It provides doctors with timely and accurate information that will minimize risk and foster the best possible patient care. The content includes reviews of the scientific literature related to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of common clinical conditions. Other content includes customized patient handouts, articles from experts in the field, pre-defined Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System^TM (MANTIS) and Medline/PubMed searches, critical product reviews, and more. (See DCConsult^SM screen shots.)

Special sections will be available to address the needs of students, faculty, as well as national and international organizations. Please join us and encourage your colleagues to join the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) in our efforts to better serve your needs and that of your patients.

Why a Resource Center?

THE EVIDENCE-BASED RESOURCE CENTER will be a continuum of education and research expertise and information resources that will deliver advisory services, management and technical support, education and training, and ready access to information on research and evidence-based chiropractic care. This global access to evidence-based research and best practices data will benefit chiropractic patients, the research community, practitioners of chiropractic and manual therapy, colleges and faculty, associations, agencies, regulatory bodies and other stakeholders.

The primary delivery vehicle for this information will be DCConsult^SM – an Internet-based professional practice web site and electronic library housing all the published research relevant to chiropractic.

With the new professional focus on how practicing doctors of chiropractic can use research results in daily practice – evidence-based health care – research results can be used to:

• Guide improved patient care

• Support treatment plans with other health care providers and patients

• Argue for reimbursement, and,

• Help in the fight for accuracy and fairness for chiropractic on the local, state and national levels

What Is It?

The center will be a resource beyond the typical database of research citations. Components will include a web site that:

• The day-to-day practitioner can access for patient care information

• Allows for discussion on the latest research and how it translates into practice

• Offers a pathway to more detailed research articles and commentaries and active links to other databases that have a related theme, e.g., nutrition, health and fitness

The center also will be:

• A public portal for health information

• A platform of knowledge for chiropractic college faculty and students, and chiropractic associations and organizations worldwide, and,

• A centralized pipeline of research data critical to the research community

What Does It Look Like?

The center is made up of three functioning divisions:

• An Organizational and Professional Development division, to work with local, state, national and international organizations to promote a better understanding and use of evidence and research and how it can be translated into practice. Under a consultancy format, the EB-RC also can help the chiropractic educational institutions worldwide in their research and academic endeavors.

• A Research Management and Support Services division that will provide consulting and outsourcing services to funding and research institutions in addition to continuing FCER’s role as provider of funds for fellowships and research grants. Also, EB-RC will offer technical support to assist research centers in expanding and upgrading their research expertise.

• A Research Information Resources division that will include the Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System (MANTISTM), the new DCConsultSM web site as well as being the repository of information regarding chiropractic education, research and practice.

Summary

FCER’s EB-RC will become the centralized advisory resource for chiropractic educational and research institutions and the gateway, repository and sharing medium for chiropractic research and data. The data will serve as a reference library to legal, regulatory and legislative needs as well. Phase II will expand to include information with other alternative health care professions (e.g., acupuncture, massage therapy et al). Phase III will be all inclusive of manual medicine, nutrition, wellness and so on. A profession whose practices are based on the best evidence ultimately will better serve the patient. This is FCER's mission, vision and role.

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