Da Costa and colleagues' criticism of PEDro scores is not supported by the data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1192-1193

  Costa, Leonardo O P ^a,b,c   Maher, Christopher G ^b,c   Moseley, Anne M ^b   Elkins, Mark R ^d   Shiwa, Silvia R ^a   Herbert, Rob D ^b,c   Sherrington, Catherine ^b  

^a MASTERS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN PHYSICAL THERAPY   (Brazil)

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COCHRANE RISK OF BIAS TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; PEDRO SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VALIDITY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883465345     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.05.007     Document Type: Letter

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