In a blog for #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth back in October 2019, Kari Bø highlighted the results of a randomised controlled trial that was presented at the International Continence Society’s annual conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chantale Dumoulin led …
Mark Hancock is a professor of physiotherapy in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has over 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist working in …
This year we called on the global physiotherapy community to commit to the #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth challenge. The challenge involved reading at least one research article each month. We’d like to thank everyone for making the commitment …
Mireille Landry has a BScPT from Queen’s University, an MSc from the University of Toronto, a Diploma in Sport Physiotherapy from Sport Physiotherapy Canada, and is a Registered International Sports Physical Therapist through the International …
Last month we explained the logic of studies of diagnostic test accuracy. Studies of diagnostic test accuracy involve comparing the findings of the index test to a reference test. The degree of concordance of the …
Physiotherapist and exercise scientist Kari Bø is a Professor in the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway. She has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles in the field of continence and women’s health (topics …
The logic of diagnostic test accuracy studies is simple. In these studies, a sample of people suspected of having a particular condition are assessed with the diagnostic test of interest (called the “index test”). The …
Cornelia A Barth is a physiotherapist with Master of Science qualifications from University College London. She spent the last decade in humanitarian missions in countries in Africa and the Middle East. Cornelia is currently the …
One of issues that has prompted statisticians and journals to call for the use of significance testing and hypothesis testing to be discontinued is that p-values are not replicable. That is, if you repeat an …
Lou James (MNZM) is a New Zealand physiotherapist with expertise in oncology. The number of people surviving or living longer after a cancer diagnosis is increasing and is projected to rise to 21.7 million by …
