Reading scientific articles reporting the results of randomised controlled trials is a skill that requires practice. This post provides four quick tips to help you get started. TIP 1: understand how trials are laid out …
Many physiotherapists have signed up for the #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth challenge and have started sharing their reading with the global physiotherapy community. We invite all physiotherapists to join in the challenge. To support this global challenge, the …
PEDro contains 42,577 records. In the 4 February 2019 update you will find: 33,328 reports of randomised controlled trials (32,484 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 8,578 reports …
Critical appraisal of reports of randomised controlled trials is a core element of evidence-based practice. When considering whether to use an intervention with a patient, clinicians are encouraged to consider the estimate of the size …
The aim of this network meta-analysis was to evaluate the effectiveness of centre-based, home-based and telephone-based cardiac rehabilitation in people with coronary heart disease. This review included randomized controlled trials of adult patients (18 years …
Acute low back pain is extremely common, most adults will experience at least one episode in their lifetime. Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Various psychosocial risk factors have been identified to …
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An analysis of the contents of PEDro in the 8 January 2019 update is now available on the PEDro statistics page. The number of reports of trials has continued to expand at an exponential rate. …
Lorimer Moseley is a Pain Scientist with a background in physiotherapy who is the University of South Australia’s Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences. He chairs the PainAdelaide Stakeholders’ Consortium and leads …
One way of keeping up-to-date with high quality clinical research relevant to your area of practice is to scan journals. However, with over 3,900 journals publishing physiotherapy research, traditional ways of keeping up-to-date can be …
