Background One of the goals of Cochrane Rehabilitation is to strengthen methodology
relevant to evidence-based clinical practice. Toward this goal, several research activities …

Clear reporting on rehabilitation treatments is critical for interpreting and replicating study
results and for translating treatment research into clinical practice. This article reports the …

Objective To identify all published protocols and reviews in the Cochrane Library relevant to
the scope of practice of rehabilitation; to test pragmatic criteria to identify rehabilitation …

Objective To identify, synthesize, and categorize the methodological issues faced by the
rehabilitation field. Data Sources A scoping review was conducted using studies identified in …

Critical Evaluation of Research in Physical Rehabilitation aims to outline the tools required
to search and critically evaluate evidence in the field of physical rehabilitation. Although the …

Cochrane Rehabilitation aims to improve the application of evidence-based practice in
rehabilitation. It also aims to support Cochrane in the production of reliable, clinically …

Dijkers MP, Bushnik T, Heinemann AW, Heller T, Libin AV, Starks J, Sherer M, Vandergoot
D. Systematic reviews for informing rehabilitation practice: an introduction. The research …

Previous studies have identified incomplete descriptions of interventions as a pressing
problem in the reporting of randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) in the field of …

Tate DG. The state of rehabilitation research: art or science? Rehabilitation research has
been criticized as not standing up enough to the rigors of scientific method to be called …

I was impressed with the breadth of Tate's lecture 1 on the state of rehabilitation research,
which provided evidence of encouraging progress in this area. However, the progress on …