Importance Postoperative recovery is difficult to define or measure. Research addressing
interventions aimed to improve recovery after abdominal surgery often focuses on measures …

… Silva, Cristina MN Cabral and Luciana D Chiavegato conducted data analysis, … Luciana D
Chiavegato provided equipment/accessories. Cristina MN Cabral and Luciana D Chiavegato …

Background There is a lack of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) with robust
measurement properties to assess postoperative recovery and support patient-centered care …

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews are considered the best design to synthesize all existing
information of a given research topic. To date, there is no study that investigated the quality …

BACKGROUND: Directed cough maneuvers are often included in physiotherapy management
aimed at preventing postoperative pulmonary complications after open heart surgery, but …

BACKGROUND: While the number of reports of randomized controlled trials in physical therapy
has increased substantially in the last decades, the quality and reporting of randomized …

Objective To test the measurement properties (reproducibility, internal consistency, ceiling
and floor effects, and construct validity) of the Human Activity Profile (HAP) questionnaire in …

Central cardiorespiratory and gas exchange limitations imposed by chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) impair ambulatory skeletal muscle oxygenation during whole body …

BACKGROUND: The use of breathing exercises with positive-pressure devices during
hospitalization aims to prevent the development of nosocomial pulmonary complications or to …

Contextualização: As revisões sistemáticas são consideradas a melhor forma de sintetizar
toda a informação existente sobre um determinado tópico, porém não se conhece, até o …