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Browse the latest research with PEDro Evidence in your inbox
Over 8,000 physiotherapists have signed up to receive PEDro Evidence in your inbox feeds. Subscribers can select from 15 areas of physiotherapy practice. To date, the most popular feeds are…
Systematic review found that physical activity improves social functioning in older people
This recent systematic review evaluates the effects of physical activity interventions on social functioning, isolation and support in community-dwelling older people. This appears to be the first review to address…
Registration of protocols for systematic reviews should be encouraged
This survey of systematic reviews evaluating physiotherapy interventions was conducted to estimate the proportion of reviews that have a registered protocol, compare the methodological quality of registered and unregistered reviews,…
Systematic reviews should only be updated to improve the certainty of evidence, duplication should be avoided
A recent editorial published in the Journal of Physiotherapy explored issues around the updating systematic reviews. The Cochrane Collaboration’s Panel for Updating Guidance for Systematic Reviews Group defines an update…
PEDro indexes 39,000+ reports (and 30,000+ trials with complete ratings)
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved two new milestones for the amount of evidence. There are now 39,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on…
PEDro update (5 March 2018)
PEDro contains 39,281 records. In the 5 March 2018 update you will find: 30,983 reports of randomised controlled trials (30,142 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using…
PEDro “how to” videos
PEDro’s collection of “how to” videos now have more than 36,000 views. Six videos are available in up to 12 different languages. The videos are available in PEDro’s YouTube Channel….
Guidelines and reviews read by PEDro users in 2017
To gain insights into what PEDro users were reading in 2017, we tallied up the most frequently accessed (selected or viewed) guidelines and reviews. In the top 20 were 12…
Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro): 18.6 million questions answered … and counting
Since being launched in October 1999, PEDro has been used to answer 18,632,434 clinical questions. In the last 3 months of 1999, PEDro was used to answer 51,642 questions. 2009…
Systematic review found that exercise improves physical function in people with cognitive impairment or dementia
In this recent review, the authors included 43 randomised controlled trials (n = 3,988) that evaluated the effects of exercise training on physical function and quality of life in people…
