The PEDro scale provides a more comprehensive measure of methodological quality than the Jadad scale in stroke rehabilitation literature

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 668-673

  Bhogal, Sanjit K ^a,b   Teasell, Robert W ^a   Foley, Norine C ^a   Speechley, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Epidemiologic methods; Quality assessment; Randomized controlled trials; Review; Stroke rehabilitation; Systematia

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICS; STROKE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 20444428385     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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