Find the best available evidence
Original Editor - Rachael Lowe
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Where to look[edit | edit source]
- Systematic Reviews - Cochrane
- Critically Appraised Topics
- Speciality Specific POEMs
- Critically Appraised Individucal Articles - Pedro
- Textbooks
- Journal Articles
Levels of evidence
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This has been adapted from Sackett, Straus and Richardson (2000)[1]
| Level of Evidence |
Type of Study |
| 1a |
Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) |
| 1b |
Individual RCTs with narrow confidence interval |
| 2a |
Systematic reviews of cohort studies |
| 2b |
Individual cohort studies and low-quality RCTs |
| 3a |
Systematic reviews of case-control studies |
| 3b |
Case-controlled studies |
| 4 | Case series and poor-quality cohort and case-control studies |
| 5 | Expert opinion |
Resources
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Pedro - PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help you quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable and those which are not.
Physiotherapy Choices - Physiotherapy Choices is a database designed for use by consumers of physiotherapy services, including patients, their friends and families, health service managers, and insurers. The database provides a catalogue of the best research evidence of the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions. Three sorts of research evidence are catalogued including clinical trials (individual research studies of the effects of physiotherapy), reviews (scientific compilations of the evidence from randomised controlled trials), and guidelines (recommendations regarding physiotherapy, based wherever possible on randomised trials and systematic reviews.)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, et al. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone Inc; 2000:173-177.
