Review Article

A Meta-Analysis on the Efficacy of Tai Chi in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease between 2008 and 2014

Table 2

PEDro scales of included randomized controlled trials.

StudyEligibility criteriaRandom allocationConcealed allocationSimilar at baselineSubjects blindedTherapists blindedAssessors blinded<15% dropoutsIntention-to-treat analysisBetween-group comparisonsPoint measures and variability dataTotal

Hackney and Earhart 2008 [12]110100100115
Hackney and Earhart 2009 [13]110100100115
Li 2011 [14]110100100116
Zhu et al. 2011 [15]110100110116
Li et al. 2012 [10]110100111117
Amano et al. 2013 [11]110100111117
Choi et al. 2013 [16]110100110116
Nocera et al. 2013 [17]110100110116
Gao et al. 2014 [18]110100110116

0: does not meet the criteria; 1: meets the criteria. Criteria (without eligibility criteria) were used to calculate the total PEDro score.