Supporters

PEDro has been supported by several organisations and many individuals. The Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy expresses its gratitude to these organisations and individuals but retains editorial independence from them.

Current funding

Physiotherapy organisations

Annual donations are being made by 15 physiotherapy organisations:

Insurance regulatory bodies

Research grants and donations are being made by 3 insurance regulatory bodies in Australia:

Physiotherapy registration boards

Annual donations are being made by the physiotherapy registration board in 5 Australian states:

Australia-China Council

Stage One of Introducing the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) to China is supported by the Commonwealth through the Australia-China Council which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Past funding

Financial support has been received in the past from the NSW Department of Health, WorkCover New South Wales, NRMA Insurance, the Physiotherapy Board of South Australia, and the ACT Allied Health Professions Boards.

Current support

Professor Rob de Bie of the Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field of the Cochrane Collaboration and the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy in Maastricht generously provided an existing database of 1,600 trials, and arranged for the copying of 1,000 trials in order to initially establish PEDro. We now have a regular exchange of records between our groups.

Staff from The George Institute for International Health provide invaluable assistance for PEDro, particularly in the areas of information technology, marketing and finance.

Staff from the School of Physiotherapy at The University of Sydney provide invaluable advice and practical support for PEDro.

We contract four information technology companies to produce PEDro:

  • Andrew Duncan from Databuzz is responsible for the interactive search pages
  • Niche IT host the PEDro database
  • Russ Weakley from MaxDesign designed the PEDro and Physiotherapy Choices web-sites
  • Andrea Buldorini from AB Studio produced the PEDro scale training program.

SBS In Language were contracted to translate the web pages into Chinese.

Several staff are employed to develop and maintain PEDro. The staff for 2009 include: Anne Moseley (PEDro Project Manager); Leonardo Costa (PEDro Research Fellow); Vicki Nicholson (PEDro Administrator); Julia Cameron, Zheng Cao, Lina Goh, Jill Hall, Jutta Jablonski, Taryn Jones, Steven Kamper, Mandy Lau, Luciana Macedo, Stefanie Mikolaizak, Jessica Patton, Ivy Shiue, Tasha Stanton (PEDro raters); Luciola Menezes, Chris Williams (PEDro administrative assistants).

The project has also received assistance from a large number of volunteers who have given freely of their time and skills. We cannot thank them all, but we list those involved during 2009 here, in no particular order:

PEDro raters: Joëlle André, Uwe Eggerickx, Manuela Ferreira, Chris Lin.

The following people kindly translated web pages:

  • Arabic: Saad Al-Dawas (School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney)
  • French: Pierre Trudelle (Société Française de Kinésithérapie)
  • German: Erwin Scherfer and Stefan Hegenscheidt (Physio-Akademie gGmbH des ZVK)
  • Italian: Roberto Iovine and Francesco Gambino (Rehabilitation Ward, University Hospital, Bologna, Italy)
  • Japanese: Hiroyuki Shimada (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology) and Kiyokazu Akasaka (School of Physical Therapy, Saitama Medical University)
  • Korean: Lee Hae Jung (School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney)
  • Polish: Katarzyna Michaluk (RehaPlusEdukacja, Cracow, Poland)
  • Portuguese: Leonardo Costa (The George Institute for International Health)
  • Spanish: Marta Aguilar (Escuela de Fisioterapia de Valencia, España)