Supporters
Since its inception, PEDro has been supported by several organisations and many individuals. Current supporters are listed below. The Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy expresses its gratitude to these organisations and individuals but retains editorial independence from them.
Principal partners
Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales
The Motor Accidents Authority (MAA) of New South Wales (Australia) is a statutory corporation that regulates the Compulsory Third Party personal injury insurance scheme in the state of New South Wales. The MAA’s purpose is to ensure people injured in motor accidents receive appropriate treatment and benefits from a sustainable insurance scheme. This includes promoting optimal recovery and reducing the social and economic impacts of motor accident trauma. To achieve this goal the MAA provides support and funding for programs that promote evidence-based practice.
Major partners
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American Physical Therapy Association Founded in 1921, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is an individual membership professional organization representing more than 77,000 member physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students of physical therapy. APTA seeks to improve the health and quality of life of individuals in society by advancing physical therapist practice, education, and research and by increasing the awareness and understanding of physical therapy’s role in the US health care system. APTA recognizes PEDro’s role in fostering evidence-based practice and partners with PEDro in the effort to provide robust web tools for physical therapy clinicians. |
Partners
Motor Accident Insurance Commission, Queensland
Transport Accident Commission, Victoria
WorkCoverSA, South Australia
Helsebiblioteket (The Norwegian Electronic Health Library), Norway
Association partners
Collaborators
Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, Maastricht
The CEBP Maastricht is a partner of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, Sydney. CEBP Maastricht aims to search, collect and disseminate available scientific evidence in the physiotherapy domain for physiotherapists, health care workers, patients and financiers of health care. It hosts a library of full-text articles scoring 6/10 or more on the PEDro scale.
PEDro has also received assistance from a large number of volunteers who have given freely of their time and skills. The following people rated trials for PEDro during 2010: Joëlle André, Uwe Eggerickx, Manuela Ferreira, Chris Lin, Jasmine Menant, Jean-Philippe Regnaux.
The following people kindly translated the PEDro web pages:
- German: Erwin Scherfer and Stefan Hegenscheidt (Physio-Akademie gGmbH des ZVK, D-27638 Wremen)
- Portuguese: Leonardo Costa (Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- French: Pierre Trudelle and Joëlle André-Vert (Société Française de Physiothérapie)
- Spanish: Antonia Gómez Conesa, Carmen Suárez Serrano and Paloma Partido Caballero (Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas)
- Italian: Roberto Iovine, Francesco Gambino and Daniele Sarti (AUSL Città di Bologna, Italy)
Staff and contractors
Several staff are employed, full time or as needed, to develop and maintain PEDro. The staff for 2010 include: Anne Moseley (PEDro Project Manager); Vicki Nicholson (PEDro Administrator); Julia Cameron, Zheng Cao, Joanne Glinsky, Lina Goh, Jutta Jablonski, Taryn Jones, Mark Kaizik, Steven Kamper, Mandy Lau, Stefanie Mikolaizak, Vinicius Oliveira, Ivy Shiue, Tasha Stanton, Chris Williams, Lara Wouda, Rafael Zambelli, Marcia Zambelli (PEDro raters); Ana Araujo (PEDro administrative assistant).
Staff from The George Institute for Global Health provide invaluable assistance for PEDro, particularly in the areas of information technology, marketing and finance.
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.
