title: Using the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) as a tool for improving the design and reporting of manual therapy interventions.
abstract: The detailed reporting of any research intervention is crucial to evaluate its applicability into a routinely practice-based context. However, it has been estimated that, especially in non-pharmacological interventions, the published literature typically includes incomplete intervention details. In the field of manual medicine, where interventions are delivered with a high degree of individualization and variability, poorly reported studies could compromise internal and external validity of the results. Among the various initiatives that have been undertaken to improve the intervention description, the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) has to be highlighted as the most promising. TIDieR offers both to researchers and clinicians a helpful and comprehensive guidance on how manual therapy interventions have to be designed and reported, taking into account the clinical complexity of manual therapy and the need to satisfy research gold standards.
authors.affiliation: Clinical-based Human Research Department, Centre for Osteopathic Medicine - C.O.ME. Collaboration, Pescara, Italy; Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre - Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: gerardalv@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.affiliation: Clinical-based Human Research Department, Centre for Osteopathic Medicine - C.O.ME. Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cerritelli
authors.affiliation: Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre - Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain; CIBEResp, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Urrutia
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D057189:Checklist; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D026201:Musculoskeletal Manipulations / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Checklist; Manual therapy; Musculoskeletal manipulations; Reproducibility of results; Research report