...is a database designed for use by consumers of physiotherapy services, including patients, their friends and families, health service managers, and insurers. The database provides a catalogue of the best research evidence of the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions. Three sorts of research evidence are catalogued:
- clinical trials (individual research studies of the effects of physiotherapy),
- reviews (scientific compilations of the evidence from randomised controlled trials),
- and guidelines (recommendations regarding physiotherapy, based wherever possible on randomised trials and systematic reviews.)