**2. Methods**

Review chapter. Pubmed and PEDro databases were searched through June–July 2022 to identify relevant articles related to patient safety in physiotherapy field.

#### **KEYWORDS**


**Table 1.** *Search strategy.*

All databases were searched by using the following keywords: patient safety and physiotherapy or rehabilitation combined with keywords related to physiotherapy and patient safety, such as treatment effects, malpractice, secondary effects, consequences, manipulation, and intensive care unit. The search strategy is presented in **Table 1**.

To obtain relevant articles, the search results were screened, using the following inclusion criteria: (1) the study is published after January 2007, (2) articles are published in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, and (3) the physiotherapy intervention is described in papers, where treatment is implemented. Screening for eligibility was

**Figure 1.**

*Flow Chart of study selection.*

first performed on title and abstract. Then, full-text versions were obtained. In the second phase, the full-text version was screened. Books and other documents were excluded. The reference lists of reviewed articles were also searched for relevant citations. Relevant literature from medical side was also included to complete general concepts in the introduction based on patient safety health care perspective. The final search provided a total of 29 studies (see **Figure 1**: flow chart of the study selection) directly related to physiotherapy. All other sources use in the paper are from other fields and or directly related to patient safety, bioethics, and malpractice as concepts and/or analyzed in a medical or other health professions.
