Introduction and Methods

The SREBR was designed to be an up-to-date review of the current evidence in stroke rehabilitation, related to the effectiveness of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. In this first chapter we describe the origins of the SREBR and detail the methodology including the literature search strategy, data abstraction process, scoring the methodological quality of individual studies and the process that was used to formulate the levels of evidence which form the basis of the review.