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How are trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines located?

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How are trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines located?

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Specific criteria are used to define which clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are archived in PEDro. We have located (and are still locating) trials, reviews and guidelines in a number of ways: 1. Drs Rob de Bie and Riekie de Vet of the Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field of the Cochrane Collaboration generously gave us their pre-existing database of randomised trials in rehabilitation. More recently they have sent us copies of Dutch guidelines. 2. These were combined with personal databases of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy. 3. Then we performed optimised searches of four databases of the serials literature (Medline, Embase, Cinahl and PsycInfo). Now we prospectively search these databases using automated (SDI) optimised searches. Retrospective searches of these databases are ongoing. 4. We search each new release of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Clinical Trials R

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Specific criteria are used to define which clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are archived in Physiotherapy Choices.