Societá Italiana de Fisioterapia and the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)

Mark R. Elkins; Anne M. Moseley

doi:10.1186/s40945-019-0058-3

Authors

Mark R. Elkins Centre for Education and Workforce Development, Sydney Local Health District, Building 301, Rozelle 2039, Australia
Anne M. Moseley The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40945-019-0058-3

Keywords:

Physiotherapy, Evidence-based practice, PEDro, Professional issues

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of a free resource that can be used by physiotherapists to assist their efforts to undertake evidence-based practice. The resource is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro; www.pedro.org.au) – a searchable online database that in February 2019 indexes the details of over 42,000 pieces of published evidence about the effects of physiotherapy interventions. PEDro is searched millions of times each year by users worldwide. Societá Italiana de Fisioterapia (SIF; www.sif-fisioterapia.it) has entered into a collaboration with the developers of PEDro. In addition to describing the evidence available on PEDro and who uses it, this paper also summarises the features of PEDro that can facilitate evidence-based physiotherapy. This paper concludes by outlining the collaboration between SIF and PEDro.