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. …
Proven treatments for low back pain only provide modest overall benefits. Matching people to treatments that are likely to be most effective for them may improve clinical outcomes and makes better use of healthcare resources. …
Last month we summarised the systematic review by Santos et al. The review concluded that aerobic exercise promotes smoking cessation in adults in the short term. Some suggestions for exercise prescription to promote smoking cessation …
April 28 is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. To reflect on the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the theme for 2021 is ‘Anticipate, prepare and respond to crises’. It encourages workplaces …
Throughout 2021 we will be sharing some tips on how to use the PEDro Advanced Search. The third tip is “Use the PEDro Advanced Search (not Simple)”. PEDro has three search pages (Advanced, Simple and …
The PEDro prize is awarded to the person who presents the best report of a randomised controlled trial at the World Physiotherapy Congress. The award recognises the achievements of researchers who conduct high quality, clinically …
We are looking for 10 volunteers for a pilot study to work out how best to measure PEDro searching skills. The study is conducted at The University of Sydney. Participants need to: be a licensed …
We are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved a new milestone. There are now 50,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on PEDro. pedro.org.au
DiTA contains 2,074 records. In the 12 April 2021 update you will find: 1,871 reports of primary studies, and 203 reports of systematic reviews. dita.org.au
PEDro contains 50,302 records. In the 12 April 2021 update you will find: 38,912 reports of randomised controlled trials (38,122 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 10,701 reports …
