Physiotherapy Treatment in Patients with Hemophilia and Chronic Ankle Arthropathy: A Systematic Review

Table 5

Analysis of the methodological quality of Czepa et al.’s [14] study, by PEDro scale.

Items	Czepa et al. (2013) [14]
Eligibility criteria were specified	No
Subjects were randomly allocated to groups (in a crossover study, subjects were randomly allocated an order in which treatments were received)	No
Allocation was concealed	No
The groups were similar at baseline regarding the most important prognostic indicators	Yes
There was blinding of all subjects	No
There was blinding of all therapists who administered the therapy	No
There was blinding of all assessors who measured at least one key outcome	No
Measures of at least one key outcome were obtained from more than 85% of the subjects initially allocated to groups	No
All subjects for whom outcome measures were available received the treatment or control condition as allocated or, where this was not the case, data for at least one key outcome was analysed by “intention to treat”	No
The results of between-group statistical comparisons are reported for at least one key outcome	Yes
The study provides both point measures and measures of variability for at least one key outcome	Yes