In this review, the authors included 19 controlled studies (17 randomised, 1 non-randomised, 1 cross-over) examining the effects of exercise on cognitive function in individuals at risk of or diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Only studies …
PEDro contains 39,960 records. In the 7 May 2018 update you will find: 31,484 reports of randomised controlled trials (30,577 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 7,818 reports …
A systematic review and network meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of minimally invasive treatments for adult obstructive sleep apnea. The authors included 89 randomised controlled trials (n=6,346) comparing 18 different interventions. The main …
Many PEDro users will be familiar with meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. These involve the statistical combination of the results of trials that compare two interventions (one of these interventions could be a no treatment …
PEDro contains 39,633 records. In the 9 April 2018 update you will find: 31,231 reports of randomised controlled trials (30,401 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 7,755 reports …
Over 8,000 physiotherapists have signed up to receive PEDro Evidence in your inbox feeds. Subscribers can select from 15 areas of physiotherapy practice. To date, the most popular feeds are musculoskeletal, orthopaedics, chronic pain, and …
This recent systematic review evaluates the effects of physical activity interventions on social functioning, isolation and support in community-dwelling older people. This appears to be the first review to address this question. The protocol for …
This survey of systematic reviews evaluating physiotherapy interventions was conducted to estimate the proportion of reviews that have a registered protocol, compare the methodological quality of registered and unregistered reviews, and calculate the prevalence of …
A recent editorial published in the Journal of Physiotherapy explored issues around the updating systematic reviews. The Cochrane Collaboration’s Panel for Updating Guidance for Systematic Reviews Group defines an update as a new edition of …
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved two new milestones for the amount of evidence. There are now 39,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on PEDro. The number of trials …
