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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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PEDro update (2 December 2019)
PEDro contains 45,451 records. In the 2 December 2019 update you will find: 35,465 reports of randomised controlled trials (34,643 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
Rana Hinman wins PEDro prize for the best trial presented at #TRANSFORM2019
The PEDro prize was awarded to the person who presents the best report of a randomised controlled trial at the TRANSFORM2019 Physiotherapy Conference. The award recognises the achievements of researchers…
Systematic review found that exercise reduces cancer-related fatigue
This systematic review of individual patient data investigated the effects of exercise on cancer-related fatigue and moderators of exercise interventions. Randomised controlled trials in the Predicting OptimaL cAncer Rehabilitation and…