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Title: | Level of evidence in four selected rehabilitation journals | Authors: | Koçak, Fatma Ünver Unver, B. Karatosun, V. |
Keywords: | Evidence-based medicine Journals Meta-analyses Randomized controlled trial American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation article case report Clinical Rehabilitation cohort analysis comparative study cross-sectional study descriptive research evidence based medicine medical practice medical research physical medicine physiotherapy publication rehabilitation medicine science scientific literature validation study Bibliometrics Evidence-Based Medicine Humans Journal Impact Factor Peer Review, Research Periodicals as Topic Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Rehabilitation |
Abstract: | Objective To investigate the methodologic quality and level of evidence of publications in major peer-reviewed general rehabilitation journals (Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation [APMR], American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation [AJPMR], Clinical Rehabilitation [CR], and Physical Therapy [PT]). Design Descriptive, comparative. Main Outcome Measures All the articles published in AJPMR, APMR, CR, and PT between January 2005 and December 2009 were investigated. Type of study and level of evidence were recorded for all articles. Selection and assessment of articles were based on the title and abstract by 2 independent raters. Results The most frequently published reports were randomized controlled trials (12.7%), followed by cross-sectional studies (12.1%), case reports/case series (10.3%), validation studies (9.3%), cohort studies (8.9%), clinical trials (7.5%), casecontrol studies (6.8%), and other study types (32.4%). When the articles were classified according to their level of evidence, level I studies most frequently appeared in CR (29.1%), followed by PT (11.0%), APMR (10.5%), and AJPMR (7.1%). Most of the meta-analyses (10) were in APMR, and there were none in AJPMR. Conclusions Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses form only a small proportion of articles published in the current rehabilitation literature. The numbers of randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis are comparable with those in other fields. © 2011 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/6096 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2010.07.233 |
ISSN: | 0003-9993 |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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