Evidence: Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)
Does Early Egg Consumption Reduce Egg Allergy? Evidence from Randomised Controlled Trials
... *Corresponding author: Caroline Lodge, Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia Received: ...
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Randomised Controlled Trials, Evidence Hierarchies and Smarter Choices
... Whether RCTs which partially satisfy the conditions in Table 1 produce more reliable results than other methods is an empirical question: it cannot be demonstrated from first principles nor deduced by comparing research ...
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The trials of evidence-based practice in education : a systematic review of randomised controlled trials in education research 1980–2016
... clear evidence that it is possible to conduct RCTs in education, regardless of the nature of the education setting or of the particular type and focus of the intervention under ...This evidence is not just ...
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Does a "Level I Evidence" rating imply high quality of reporting in orthopaedic randomised controlled trials?
... of Evidence Rating system categorizes studies by quality [5,6], our study suggests that this system, while reliable [7], may not be a valid tool for determining the quality of a study, as determined through the ...
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What is the evidence-base for atopic eczema treatments? A summary of published randomised controlled trials
... 183 Stinco, G., Piccirillo, F. & Valent, F. A randomized double-blind study to investigate the clinical efficacy of adding a non-migrating antimicrobial to a special silk fabric in the treatment of atopic dermatitis. ...
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What is the evidence base for atopic eczema treatments? A summary of published randomised controlled trials
... 316 Berth-Jones, J. & Graham-Brown, R. A. Failure of papaverine to reduce pruritus in atopic dermatitis: a double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study. British Journal of Dermatology 122, 553-557 (1990). 317 ...
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evidence synthesis of dose-response models in randomised controlled trials. BayesPharma 2016, Leuven, Belgium.
... • Model based meta-analysis (MBMA) incorporates dose and/or time course information in a meta-analysis.. • We propose a framework to combine both – MBNMA..[r] ...
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Financial considerations in the conduct of multi centre randomised controlled trials: evidence from a qualitative study
... Methods: In-depth semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted in 2003–04 with 45 individuals with various responsibilities to one of the four trials. Interviewees were recruited through purposive and then ...
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Should desperate volunteers be included in randomised controlled trials?
... the evidence ethically required for decisions about individual patients and that required for policy ...in trials, these are not arbitrary but rather are those that experience suggests lead to reliable ...
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Factors associated with citation rate of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy
... All RCTs abstracted in the Physiotherapy Evidence Data- base (PEDro), indexed in Scopus database and published in 2008 were included. Article title, journal name, year of publication, ratings for each of the 11 ...
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A concept for trial institutions focussing on randomised controlled trials in surgery
... scientific evidence of a treatment's benefits and harms, the number of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) comparing surgical techniques remains ...
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Increasing recruitment to randomised trials: a review of randomised controlled trials
... clinical trials is a major threat to their ...a controlled trial and therefore could have been confounded by regression to the mean, temporal changes or simple selection ...possible evidence and this ...
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Recruitment to randomised controlled trials with children
... in randomised clinical trials (Bevan et ...about trials and interest in participation. There is evidence that patients are keen to participate and want the option of trial participation to be ...
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Design, analysis and presentation of factorial randomised controlled trials
... factorial trials are rarely powered to detect interactions between the interventions, such effects are usually investigated as a secondary ...as evidence for no ...
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A guide to performing a peer review of randomised controlled trials
... in Evidence Based Practice at Bond University, Queensland, ...in Evidence Based Practice at Bond University and a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Research ...research ...
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Randomised controlled trials of attentional bias retraining in smokers
... preliminary evidence for this comes from Fadardi and Cox’s (2009) study, where harmful and hazardous drinkers – who were interested in reducing their consumption - demonstrated a bigger reduction in cognitive bias ...
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Baseline testing in cluster randomised controlled trials: should this be done?
... individually randomised trials are not relevant ...any evidence that suggests that re- cruitment bias has occurred and the pre-intervention group averages are not ...
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Evaluating complementary medicine: methodological challenges of randomised controlled trials
... of randomised controlled trials seriously enables methods to be modi- fied so that the concerns of all stakeholders are taken into ...Some evidence from unmodified trials can be ...
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Treatment resistant schizophrenia: a comprehensive survey of randomised controlled trials
... on trials focusing on any number of ...Also, evidence for augmenting antipsychotics with anti-depressant medication seems lacking as no individual drug had more than one study and these trials ...
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Baseline testing in cluster randomised controlled trials : should this be done?
... Cluster randomised trials Cluster randomised trials are when participants are randomised as intact groups rather than as individ- ...individually randomised trials [ 8 ]. ...
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