We know that language can be a barrier to implementing research evidence into practice. Whilst the majority of the world’s population speak languages other than English, English has become the dominant language of publication for …
The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy publish a regular feature called “evidence in practice”. The latest evidence in practice article provides a great overview of confidence intervals. Confidence intervals span a range of …
Two recent articles have evaluated the measurement properties of the PEDro scale. This second article summarised the clinimetric properties of the PEDro scale, and is summarised in this post. The PEDro score has demonstrated ‘fair’ …
Two recent articles have evaluated the measurement properties of the PEDro scale. This first article assessed the agreement between the PEDro scale and the Cochrane risk of bias tool, and is summarised in this post. …
The PEDro Partnership is very excited to announce the launch of a new database. Called DiTA (for Diagnostic Test Accuracy), this database indexes articles evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests used by physiotherapists. DiTA is …
Earlier this year a study assessed the accuracy of abstracts of articles reporting the results of randomised controlled trials evaluating physiotherapy interventions for low back pain. The main findings were that abstracts were often incomplete, …
A Research Note published in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy argues the case for moving away from significance tests and hypothesis tests in health research. The central reason is that p-values and …
The PEDro team presented a paper evaluating the impact of “Evidence in your inbox” at the 13th International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Congress in Kobe, Japan in June 2019. The abstract for …
A recently published meta-epidemiological study has evaluated if allocation concealment and intention-to-treat analysis influence the size of treatment effects of randomised controlled trials evaluating physiotherapy interventions for people with low back pain. Five databases (PubMed, …
A plain-language summary is a short and clearly stated version of a study’s results using non-scientific vocabulary. These summaries are useful for both patients and clinicians in the process of shared decision-making. A recent article …
