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.

Study	Eligibility criteria	Random allocation	Concealed allocation	Similar at baseline	Subjects blinded	Therapists blinded	Assessors blinded	<15% dropouts	Intention-to-treat analysis	Between-group comparisons	Point measures and variability data	Total
Hackney and Earhart 2008 [12]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	5
Hackney and Earhart 2009 [13]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	5
Li 2011 [14]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	6
Zhu et al. 2011 [15]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	6
Li et al. 2012 [10]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	7
Amano et al. 2013 [11]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	7
Choi et al. 2013 [16]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	6
Nocera et al. 2013 [17]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	6
Gao et al. 2014 [18]	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	6

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