PEDro social media highlights from 2019
We found the four social media posts that PEDro users most engaged with in 2019. In case you missed the posts, we provide a brief description and links to the original posts below. A summary …
Publications
A recent paper provides an overview of how to use PEDro to guide physiotherapy practice
PEDro is a free, preeminent, global resource to support evidence-based practice. It provides rapid access to articles reporting the results of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions. This paper …
Tackling the language barrier to implementing research into practice: a survey of usage of the PEDro
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 …
Confidence intervals give the reader critical information about the precision of an effect estimate reported in a trial
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 …
Summary of measurement properties of the PEDro scale
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’ …
There is moderate agreement for half of the PEDro scale and Cochrane risk of bias items that evaluate similar constructs
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. …
Introducing DiTA, a database of Diagnostic Test Accuracy in physiotherapy produced by the PEDro Partnership
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 …
A reminder to guide practice using information from the full-text (not abstract) of research articles
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, …
Time to move from significance testing to estimation
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 …
Keeping up-to-date with clinical research: an evaluation of PEDro’s “Evidence in your inbox”
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 …
