In order to understand issues related to value, outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions, and to explore how scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and patient needs can be integrated, the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developing Optimal Strategies in Exercise and Survival Skills to Increase Health and Function held a State of the Science (SOS) Symposium on “The Value of Rehabilitation Interventions” at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago in 2017. In this conference, the perspectives of 35 invited experts, including people with disabilities, professionals, and consumers, explored the topic of “value” of rehabilitation interventions and discussed their perspectives on the means to integrate best scientific evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences. This Symposium also resulted in the production of several multifaceted manuscripts providing perspectives on the topic of value and how to use evidence to best determine and demonstrate it. These papers comprise this Supplement. The present paper introduces the key concepts of value, evidence, and knowledge translation, in an effort to provide a context for the papers of the Supplement.

为了了解与康复干预的价值、结果和成本效益相关的问题，并探索如何整合科学证据、临床专业知识和患者需求，康复研究和培训中心制定运动和生存的最佳策略提高健康和功能的技能举办了关于“康复干预的价值”的科学状况 (SOS) 研讨会”于 2017 年在芝加哥的 Shirley Ryan AbilityLab。在本次会议上，包括残疾人、专业人士和消费者在内的 35 位受邀专家的观点探讨了康复干预的“价值”话题，并讨论了他们对整合手段的看法具有临床专业知识和患者偏好的最佳科学证据。本次研讨会还产生了几篇多方面的手稿，提供了关于价值主题的观点以及如何使用证据来最好地确定和证明它。这些文件构成本增补。本论文介绍了价值、证据和知识转化的关键概念，旨在为增刊的论文提供背景。