Abstract
To the Editor: In his invited commentary on the article by Miller et al titled “A Quantitative Analysis of Research Publications in Physical Therapy Journals” in the February 2003 issue of Physical Therapy , Jette posed a simple question: “What can be done to stimulate more research in physical therapy that has direct clinical relevance?”1(p132) Jette proposed that, to answer this question, clinicians and scientists in physical therapy must come together. In fact, he proposed that the divergence between clinicians and scientists has “hindered the conduct of clinically relevant research that will meet the contemporary demands of society for clinical interventions rooted in sound theory and scientific evidence, versus tradition and anecdote.”1(p132) One etiology of the hindered conduct of clinically relevant research might be what we would call a “confounding factor” in the divide between clinicians and scientists. A confounding factor is a third factor, independently related to cause and effect. Here, cause is the divergence between clinicians …
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