Randomized clinical trials are considered to be the gold standard of evidence-based medicine nowadays. However, it is important that we point out some limitations of randomized clinical trials relating to surgical ...

PURPOSE: This review of the literature intends to evaluate the effect of brushes with high frequency motion when compared with manual toothbrushes regarding the indices of plaque and gingival bleeding. METHODS: Patients ...

In this article I discuss the misfits problem, a practical issue that arises in random treatment assignment whenever observations can’t be neatly distributed among treatments. I also introduce the randtreat command, which ...

In this article I discuss the misfits problem, a practical issue that arises in random treatment assignment whenever observations can’t be neatly distributed among treatments. I also introduce the randtreat command, which ...

Compared with other specialties, the field of physical and rehabilitation medicine has not received the deserved recognition from clinicians and researchers in the scientific community. One of the reasons is the lack of ...

The objective of this study was to analyze randomized controlled trials published in the last decades involving motor intervention as a treatment for dementia, based on Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) criteria. A ...