Stroke is the third leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of mortality worldwide. Stroke units provide guideline-directed and multi-disciplinary care (medical, nursing, and allied health, including physiotherapy) for patients hospitalised with stroke. …
Last month we summarised the Anekwe et al. The review concluded that early rehabilitation interventions (early mobilisation and/or neuromuscular electrical stimulation) reduce the likelihood of developing intensive care unit-acquired weakness in critically ill patients. Some …
One way of keeping up-to-date with high quality clinical research is to subscribe to an alert service. Randomised controlled trials indicate that, compared to usual information seeking, clinicians who subscribe to an alert service have …
15-22 June 2020 is World Continence Week, a global initiative run by the World Federation of Incontinence Patients with the support of the International Continence Society. Their goal us to help facilitate continence awareness and …
The easing of COVID-19 restrictions in some countries presents an opportunity to reflect on what we have learnt so far and how we can shape the future. Madeleine Albright, the United States of America’s first …
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 are pleased to announce that PEDro has just achieved a new milestone for the amount of evidence. There are now 47,000+ reports of trials, reviews and guidelines indexed on PEDro. pedro.org.au
PEDro contains 47,188 records. In the 3 June 2020 update you will find: 36,693 reports of randomised controlled trials (35,876 of these trials have confirmed ratings of methodological quality using the PEDro scale) 9,811 reports …
DiTA contains 1,784 records. In the 1 June 2020 update you will find: 1,616 reports of primary studies, and 168 reports of systematic reviews. dita.org.au
We thank Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie, Physioswiss, Associação Espanola de Fisioterapeutas, Taiwan Physical Therapy Association, Félag Sjúkraþjálfara, Macau Physical Therapists Association, and Cambodian Physical Therapy Association who have just renewed their partnership with PEDro for …
