Welcome to the PEDro World-Wide Journal Club. The purpose of the PEDro World-Wide Journal Club is to encourage the global physiotherapy community to read trials, reviews and guidelines that have important implications for clinical practice. We hope that facilitating discussion of this research will help physiotherapists to implement the results into their clinical practice.
Journal clubs are a great way to translate research into practice. In March 2020 PEDro published a blog that outlined some key features of running a successful journal club. Since then, PEDro has run four journal clubs which have been well received. The idea is for physiotherapists to use resources provided by PEDro as the basis for running a local journal club with their peers.
The first PEDro World-Wide Journal Club for 2022 is about the effect of a frailty intervention on risk factors for falls and fall rate in frail older people. We will be discussing the randomised controlled trial by Fairhall et al. We encourage physiotherapists with an interest in gerontology to participate in a five-step process:
- invite your colleagues to be involved
- read the article
- watch (or listen to) the video summarising the effect of a frailty intervention on risk factors for falls and fall rate in frail older people trial
- watch (or listen to) the video of the panel discussing the effect of a frailty intervention on risk factors for falls and fall rate in frail older people
- meet with your colleagues to have your own discussion about the effect of a frailty intervention on risk factors for falls and fall rate in frail older people trial.
If you are interested in being involved, please visit the PEDro web-site for more information.
