Established in 1999, the Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP), now at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, is responsible for PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database and the consumer health version of PEDro, Physiotherapy Choices. PEDro is freely-available to all and includes “over 34,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy”. Most noteworthy, clinical trials included in PEDro are critically appraised and assigned a quality rating to help users make a determination about the strength of the evidence before using it in their clinical decision-making. 

Figure 1. An abstract of a clinical trial from PEDro. Highlighted in blue is the quality rating.

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