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Dr. Peter Rosenbaum

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Biography

Dr. Peter Rosenbaum is Co-Founder of CanChild. He is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an Associate Member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. Peter holds a CIHR Canada Research Chair in Childhood Disability (2001-2007 & 2008-2014) which allows Peter to devote his time to clinical and health services research. His research interests include studies of the processes of care research program, the evaluation of family-centred functional approaches to care, how to describe and measure functional status and the development and implementation of a database system for gross motor disability. He works with a number of graduate students at several universities. From 2007-12 Peter was the inaugural Director of the McMaster Child Health Research Institute, of which CanChild was a Founding Member.

Area of Focus

childhood disability, family-centred service, family wellbeing in families of children with 'complicated lives', measurement and functional classification in childhood disability

Resources

GMFCS – E&R

The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) is a clinical tool designed to evaluate change in gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy.
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as a ‘treatment’ for Cerebral Palsy

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a technique that allows 100% oxygen to be delivered to the body’s tissues under increased atmospheric pressure. To achieve this, the patient enters a “pressure chamber” that makes it possible to increase the atmospheric pressure to “hyperbaric” levels, i.e., above the earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level.
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Knowledge Broker Study Report

Knowledge brokering is the process of “bringing people together, to help them build relationships, uncover needs, and share ideas and evidence that will let them do their jobs better.
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Knowledge Broker

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapists, acting as Knowledge Brokers (KBs) within their own clinical facility to facilitate the clinical use of evidence-based measures of gross motor function for children with cerebral palsy.
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Measure of Processes of Care

The Measure of Processes of Care (pronounced “em-pock”) is a well-validated and reliable self-report measure of parents’ perceptions of the extent to which the health services they and their child(ren) receive are family-centred.
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Motor Growth Curves

GMFM scores of a sample of over 650 Ontario children with cerebral palsy with varying GMFCS levels have been used to create five Motor Growth Curves.
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