Rob Herbert

School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney, Australia

Associate Professor, School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney.
BAppSc (Physiotherapy) 1984, MAppSc (Exercise and Sports Science) 1992, PhD 2000. Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy.
Scientific Editor, Australian Journal of Physiotherapy.

Research interests:
Muscle-tendon mechanics in humans.
Effects of physiotherapy interventions.
Accuracy of diagnostic tests used in physiotherapy.
Randomised trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Research Methodology > Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.pedro.fhs.usyd.edu.au

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Do patients' communication behaviors provide insight into their preferences for participation in decision making?
  Recommended by Rob Herbert with Julia Hush
  
• 3.0
  Life goals and health decisions: what will people live (or die) for?
  Recommended by Rob Herbert with Julia Hush
  
• 9.0
  Use of randomised trials to decide when to monitor response to new treatment.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Limitations of acceptability curves for presenting uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.2
  Evaluation of PICO as a knowledge representation for clinical questions.
  Recommended by Bob Phillips, Rob Herbert
  
• 6.0
  Monitoring in chronic disease: a rational approach.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  The value of information and optimal clinical trial design.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 6.0
  Believability of relative risks and odds ratios in abstracts: cross sectional study.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Formats for improving risk communication in medical tradeoff decisions.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 6.0
  Sufficiently important difference: expanding the framework of clinical significance.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Effectiveness and efficiency of search methods in systematic reviews of complex evidence: audit of primary sources.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Brief communication: Better ways to question patients about adverse medical events: a randomized, controlled trial.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): the silence of the lambda.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  Cognitive behaviour therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 6.0
  An assessment of the shared-decision model in parents of children with acute otitis media.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert
  
• 3.0
  The journal impact factor as a predictor of trial quality and outcomes: cohort study of hepatobiliary randomized clinical trials.
  Recommended by Rob Herbert