Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

Abstrak

Rating Of A Research Paper ‘randomised Controlled Trial To Compare Surgical Stabilisation Of The Lumbar Spine With An Intensive Rehabilitation Programme For Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: The Mrc Spine Stabilisation Trial’

The following essay seeks to critically analysis a research paper by using a rating scale. The paper I have selected is “Randomized controlled trial to compare surgical stabilisation of the lumbar spine with an intensive rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: the MRC spine stabilisation trial” by Fairbank et al. (2005). The rating scale I intend to apply to the paper is The PEDro Rating Scale from the physiotherapy department at the University of Sydney. I choose this rating scale because PEDro Rating Scale is a tool that especially made to make critical appraisal of an article that use randomised controlled trials method. It gives details criteria with explanation for each criterion so that it is easier to use and apply to rating RCTs.

The essay has been broken into two distinct parts. Part one discusses the paper appraisal using criteria from PEDro scale. The second part discusses whether the rating scale has assisted with appraisal of the paper.

It is important to distinguish that for the purpose of this essay, the focus of discussion is critical analysis of the paper using PEDro scale from Physiotherapy Evidence Database.