Authors: Joshua A Subialka, Ryan C McConnell, Ethan Vosburgh, Derek Pyle, Mareli Klopper, C Daniel Maddox, Tyler Miller, Anthony Mancini, Marcel P Dijkers

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate exercise reporting completeness at the exercise level using the Consensus on Exercise Reporting Template (CERT) checklist (a guideline for reporting of exercise trials, consisting of 19 items), explore the partial-credit versus traditional full-credit models of scoring completeness, and assess the reliability of scoring methods.

DESIGN: Methodological review of randomized clinical trials.

LITERATURE SEARCH: Eight databases were searched for trials investigating exercise for subacromial pain syndrome, published between January 2021 and February 2024.

STUDY SELECTION CRITERIA: Trials examining exercise in treatment and comparator arms for subacromial pain syndrome were included. Of 25 eligible studies, 10 were randomly selected for analysis.

DATA SYNTHESIS: Each exercise was scored using a modified CERT, employing a partial-credit model. Exercise-level mean scores …

https://www.jospt.org/doi/full/10.2519/josptmethods.2025.0004