PEDro or Cochrane to Assess the Quality of Clinical Trials? A Meta-Epidemiological Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is debate on how the methodological quality of clinical trials should be assessed. We compared trials of physical therapy (PT) judged to be of adequate quality based on summary scores from the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale with trials judged to be of adequate quality by Cochrane Risk of Bias criteria.

Design

Meta-epidemiological study within Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Methods

Meta-analyses of PT trials were identified in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. For each trial PeDro and Cochrane assessments were extracted from the PeDro and Cochrane databases. Adequate quality was defined as adequate generation of random sequence, concealment of allocation, and blinding of outcome assessors (Cochrane criteria) or as tri

SUBMITTER: Armijo-Olivo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4498768 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature