And the award for the best 2015 BJSM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Systematic Review goes to…

By Angela Spontelli Gisselman  (@ASGPhysio) and Christina Le (@yegphysio) Systematic reviews are the gold standard for critically appraising clinically relevant literature. Twice yearly, BJSM hosts a competition to award the authors of the “best” systematic review(s). Based on prior BJSM competitions, the “best” systematic reviews are determined following an objective, systematic appraisal process (see the end of this blog […]

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And the award for the best 2015 BJSM ‘Sports Injury and Illness’ Systematic Review goes to…

By Angela Spontelli Gisselman  (@ASGPhysio) and Christina Le (@yegphysio) Systematic reviews are the gold standard for critically appraising clinically relevant literature. Twice yearly, BJSM hosts a competition to award the authors of the “best” systematic review(s). Based on prior BJSM competitions, the “best” systematic reviews are determined following an objective, systematic appraisal process (see the end of […]

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Winners! – Official 2014/2015 BJSM Systematic Review Awards – Part 2: Walking groups and ACL injury prevention take home the “Intervention SR” title

By Johann Windt, MS, CSCS, CIHR Doctoral Award Scholar BJSM has annual awards for the best systematic reviews. The award has two categories: 1) Risk Factor Systematic Reviews 2) Intervention Systematic Reviews For the judging criteria, as well as the winner of the best risk factor-related systematic review, please look back at Part 1. What […]

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Winner, winner – Official 2014/2015 BJSM Systematic Review Awards (Part 1): Weak Hips – The Cause or Result of Unhappy Knees?

By Johann Windt, MS, CSCS, PhD Student Systematic reviews are the gold standard for critically appraising clinically-relevant literature. BJSM rewards the authors of the best systematic review(s) published each year. What’s the ‘best’ systematic review? What is good art? To address this challenge we used similar criteria to judge the reviews as in past years. All […]

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Brilliant, engaging, relevant! 2013/14 BJSM Systematic Review Award Winners

Systematic reviews provide critical high-level evidence to influence practice. BJSM prioritises publication of quality SRs. The winning papers are enjoyable to read and their messages easily incorporated into clinical practice. The selected papers adhered carefully to PRISMA guidelines. The results were skilfully analysed and synthesised into a clinically relevant discussion which links well to the study objectives. […]

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Official Announcement: JL Kemp and co-authors win 2012/13 BJSM Systematic Review Award

By Erin Macri, MPT, MSc, PhD Candidate Systematic reviews are the current gold standard method for synthesizing and critically appraising clinically-relevant literature. So among a collection of publications all employing a criterion methodology for reviewing the literature, how does one go about determining the ‘best’ systematic review? The criteria for BJSM’s systematic reviews are: Topic that […]

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