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PEDro celebrates #WorldCancerDay on 4 February 2020
4 February 2020 is World Cancer Day. Created in 2000, World Cancer Day has grown into a positive movement to raise awareness for cancer prevention and treatment world wide. This year’s theme, #IAmAndIWill, emphasises the key role individuals and organisations play in taking positive actions to reduce the number of premature deaths from cancer. Enhancing…
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Systematic review found that aerobic and/or resistance exercise reduces cardiovascular risk factors in people with stroke or transient ischaemic attack
People who have had a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) have an increased risk of a second cardiovascular event (eg, stroke, heart attack) and commonly exhibit cardiovascular risk factors (eg, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia). To-date, research on prevention of cardiovascular events and risk factors has focused on drug interventions. The evidence-base of non-drug treatments, particularly…
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Infographic for systematic review that found that supervised, multifaceted lifestyle interventions reduce metabolic syndrome prevalence and risk factors in people with metabolic syndrome
Last month we summarised the van Namen et al systematic review. The review concluded that supervised, multifaceted lifestyle interventions reduce metabolic syndrome prevalence and risk factors in people with metabolic syndrome. Some suggestions for diet and exercise for people with metabolic syndrome are in this infographic. van Namen M, et al. Supervised lifestyle intervention for…
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Physiotherapist-led and telephone-delivered exercise advice and support improves physical function at 6 months in people with knee osteoarthritis – results from the TELECARE trial
Back in November 2019 we announced that Rana Hinman, from the University of Melbourne, won the PEDro prize for the best randomised controlled trial at the TRANSFORM2019 Physiotherapy Conference for her presentation titled “Telephone-delivered exercise advice and behaviour change support by physiotherapists for people with knee osteoarthritis: the TELECARE pragmatic randomised controlled trial”. The prize…
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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 describes the PEDro scale (methodological quality checklist), PEDro contents, who uses PEDro, searching, browsing the latest content, and developing skills…
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Who used PEDro in 2019?
An analysis of the contents of PEDro in the 13 January 2020 update is now available on the PEDro statistics page. The number of reports of trials has continued to expand at an exponential rate. During 2019 PEDro was used to answer 3,078,799 questions. This means that a new search was initiated every…
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Revisiting the best 15 physiotherapy trials published before 2014
Back in 2014 when PEDro was celebrating its 14th anniversary we decided to identify the 15 most important physiotherapy trials. We added 5 more trials to this list to celebrate PEDro’s 20th anniversary in 2019. Collectively these trials will be called the PEDro Top 20 Trials. In 2019 we started revisiting the best 15 physiotherapy…
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Podcasts now available for the PEDro Top 5 Trials from 2014-2019
Last year we announced the PEDro Top 5 Trials from 2014-2019. The trials were nominated by PEDro users, and an independent panel of international trialists judged the nominations received. PEDro has partnered with PT Pintcast to produce podcasts with the lead authors of the PEDro Top 5 Trials. The next podcast is now available! Effect…
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DiTA update (13 January 2020)
DiTA contains 1,538 records. In the 13 January 2020 update you will find: 1,387 reports of primary studies, and 151 reports of systematic reviews. https://www.dita.org.au
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PEDro update (13 January 2020)
PEDro contains 45,660 records. In the 13 January 2020 update you will find: 35,602 reports of randomised controlled trials (34,769 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 9,389 reports of systematic reviews, and 669 reports of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. pedro.org.au
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Systematic review found that supervised, multifaceted lifestyle interventions reduce metabolic syndrome prevalence and risk factors in people with metabolic syndrome
The objective of this systematic review were to determine the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and on independent, modifiable risk factors for metabolic syndrome in people with metabolic syndrome. Randomised controlled trials published in English that evaluated the effectiveness of supervised, multifaceted lifestyle interventions in people with metabolic syndrome were…
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Infographic for systematic review that found that exercise reduces cancer-related fatigue
Last month we summarised the van Vulpen et al systematic review. The review concluded that exercise reduces cancer-related fatigue. Some suggestions for providing exercise during or following cancer treatment is this infographic. van Vulpen JK et al. Moderators of exercise effects on cancer-related fatigue: a meta-analysis of individual patient data. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2020;52(2):303-14…
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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 research in healthcare. PEDro content is now available in 13 languages, thanks to the translation efforts from volunteers from around…
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#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth – what is Mark Hancock reading?
Mark Hancock is a professor of physiotherapy in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has over 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist working in primary care. While he now works primarily as an academic and researcher, Mark manages to fit in some clinical work…
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#MyPTArticleOfTheMonth – PEDro’s holiday reading list
This year we called on the global physiotherapy community to commit to the #MyPTArticleOfTheMonth challenge. The challenge involved reading at least one research article each month. We’d like to thank everyone for making the commitment to the challenge. Your ability to read scientific articles will improve with practice. If you didn’t get the chance to…
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You can now search and browse DiTA, a database of Diagnostic Test Accuracy in physiotherapy
The PEDro Partnership is very excited to let you know that the search and browse features are now available for DiTA. This database indexes articles evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests used by physiotherapists. DiTA is designed to enable clinicians, researchers and patients to easily access information on the accuracy of diagnostic tests used by…
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Evidence-based practice workshop at Shanghai Sunshine Rehabilitation Center
In November 2019 and in collaboration with Prof Alice Jones (Honorary Professor at Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, and at School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland), Anne Moseley and Rob Herbert ran a workshop on how to practice and teach evidence-based practice at Shanghai Sunshine Rehabilitation Center. The workshop ran…
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Dutch PEDro workshop: how to use scientific literature in daily practice
Niek Koenders (physical therapist and PhD student at Radboudumc, Nijmegen), Ward Heij (physical therapist and PhD student at Radboudumc, Nijmegen) and Mitchell van Doormaal (physical therapist and policy advisor at the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy, Amersfoort) have collaborated with PEDro to share the PEDro Top 5 Trials from 2014-2019 with Dutch physiotherapists. We…
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Revisiting the best 15 physiotherapy trials published before 2014
Back in 2014 when PEDro was celebrating its 14th anniversary we decided to identify the 15 most important physiotherapy trials. We added 5 more trials to this list to celebrate PEDro’s 20th anniversary in 2019. Collectively these trials will be called the PEDro Top 20 Trials. In October 2019 we started revisiting the best 15…
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Podcasts now available for the PEDro Top 5 Trials from 2014-2019
Last month we announced the PEDro Top 5 Trials from 2014-2019. The trials were nominated by PEDro users, and an independent panel of international trialists judged the nominations received. PEDro has partnered with PT Pintcast to produce podcasts with the lead authors of the PEDro Top 5 Trials. The first two podcasts are now available!…
