This page shows active posts from the category, Research, which focuses on the process of research rather that the output which is primarily covered in the category ‘From the Journals’ but can also be found in the list from Clinical Rehabilitation’s twitter feed here. These posts discuss matters relating to research method.
Clinical Rehabilitation, the journal I have edited from 1994 to 2021, rejects about 88% of all submissions. Rejections fall into two groups. Many papers are …
Today, 18th July 2021, the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), one of the major health research funding bodies in the UK announced £19.6M …
One Friday 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs) I took part in a debate organised by Professor Barbara Wilson and hosted, virtually, in Melbourne, Australia. …
The published paper featured in this post illustrates many features of a good rehabilitation research paper. (A shame it was not published in a rehabilitation …
As editor of Clinical Rehabilitation, I see a small stream of studies that attempt to predict who will benefit from a rehabilitation intervention. Terms used …
A recently published paper discusses placebos used in randomised controlled trials, referring to the placebo medication as “the Unknown Variable in a Controlled Trial”. The …
Designing and completing a large, well-designed randomised study is hard work. It must be very depressing when the result is negative – your programme of …
Of course, the title should be “Preventing loneliness”, because loneliness is a bad outcome. Rehabilitation’s goal has always been to ‘improve quality of life’, but …
Systematic reviews, with or without meta-analysis are attractive. They appear to offer much more secure answers, by taking ‘the totality of published evidence’. They can …
There are many useful published standards that improve the quality of all published biomedical research. One good source of information about them is the Equator …
This post refers to two papers in the JAMA Journal of Internal Medicine: one is the report on a randomised controlled trial comparing equivalent times …