The Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy
PEDro is a free, internet-based database of research evidence for physiotherapy interventions. The database indexes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy.
A unique feature of PEDro is that all randomised controlled trials are assessed for quality, to quickly guide users to trials that are valid and likely to contain sufficient data to guide clinical practice.
In October 2008 PEDro contained 13,541 records, and the number of guidelines, reviews and trials is growing at an exponential rate. PEDro has been continuously available since 1 October 1999, and can be accessed via www.pedro.org.au.
PEDro is widely used by the international physiotherapy community and by users and funders of physiotherapy services.
Over 1,800 users access the PEDro home-page each day, and they run over 2,500 searches of the PEDro database. In 2007 the five countries using PEDro the most were Australia (19%), USA (16%), Netherlands (7%), Brazil (7%), and the United Kingdom (6%).
PEDro is co-ordinated by Dr Anne Moseley.