An evaluation of the relationship between the number of times articles are accessed on the PEDro and the article characteristics has recently been published. All articles indexed on PEDro for a 6-month period (August 2014 …
Many clinical trials are reported without reference to the existing relevant high-quality research. This is one source of waste in research. This study aimed to investigate the extent to which authors of articles reporting the …
The validity (convergent and construct) and inter-rater reliability of the PEDro scale has been evaluated for pharmaceutical trials. 53 randomised placebo controlled trials evaluating any pain medication for chronic spinal pain or osteoarthritis were assessed …
A paper evaluating PEDro usage from Japan in 2010-2013 has just been published. On average, 29,638 searches/year were performed by Japanese physiotherapists. Japan ranked 10th among the 26 countries in the Asia Western Pacific region …
A paper evaluating 33 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for chronic respiratory diseases relevant to physiotherapy with the AGREE II instrument has recently been published. The domains with the highest scores were scope and purpose (79%) …
A paper evaluating 210 articles reporting the results of musculoskeletal physiotherapy trials has just been published. Trials that received grant funding were more likely to have multiple departments in the research team, a larger sample …
A paper analysing 893,971 PEDro search commands has just been published. This revealed some common errors made by PEDro users which will make searching less effective: using Boolean operators (and, or, not) in text fields …
A survey of a random sample of 200 physiotherapy trials indexed on PEDro has revealed that the descriptions of physiotherapy interventions are typically incomplete. The survey, published in Physiotherapy, used the 12-item Template for Intervention …
A paper evaluating the inter-rater and parallel forms reliability of the German version of the PEDro scale has recently been published. The reference is: Moseley A, Costa LOP, Hegenscheidt S. Interrater- und Paralleltest-Reliabilität der deutschen …
A paper describing PEDro usage in Brazil has recently been published. The reference is: Elkins MR, Moseley AM, Pinto RZ. Usage evaluation of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) among Brazilian physical therapists. Braz J Phys …
