There was evidence of convergent and construct validity of Physiotherapy Evidence Database quality scale for physiotherapy trials

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 920-925

  Macedo, Luciana Gazzi ^a   Elkins, Mark R ^b   Maher, Christopher G ^a   Moseley, Anne M ^a   Herbert, Robert D ^a   Sherrington, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Journal impact factor; Physical therapy; Questionnaire; Randomized controlled trial; Research methodology; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953622615     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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