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.
Why are research papers rejected?
Clinical Rehabilitation, the journal I have edited from 1994 to 2021, rejects about 88% of…
Rehabilitation research news
Today, 18th July 2021, the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), one of the…
Goal attainment scaling.
One Friday 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs) I took part in a debate organised…
Exemplary paper
The published paper featured in this post illustrates many features of a good rehabilitation research…
Predicting benefit?
Can you predict who will benefit from rehabilitation? When I was the editor of Clinical…
Randomised Comparison Trials
A recently published paper discusses placebos used in randomised controlled trials, referring to the placebo…
Learning from failure
Designing and completing a large, well-designed randomised study is hard work. It must be very…
Loneliness – a key outcome?
Of course, the title should be “Preventing loneliness”, because loneliness is a bad outcome. Rehabilitation’s…
Systematic reviews – reviewed
Systematic reviews, with or without meta-analysis are attractive. They appear to offer much more secure…
Reporting standards in rehabilitation research.
There are many useful published standards that improve the quality of all published biomedical research….
Outcome measures
This post refers to two papers in the JAMA Journal of Internal Medicine: one is…
