Intention to treat
Intention-to-treat. What is the question?
... It has become commonplace for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to be analyzed according to Intention-to-Treat (ITT) principles in which data from all subjects are used regardless of the subjects' ...
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The Impact of Social Safety Net Scholarships Program to School Dropout Rates in Indonesia: The Intention To Treat Analysis
... the intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis is a recent finding, although previously there have been studies on the JPS scholarship to school dropout rates in the junior secondary in Indonesia using survey ...
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Modified versus standard intention to treat reporting: Are there differences in methodological quality, sponsorship, and findings in randomized trials? A cross sectional study
... The intention-to-treat principle requires that all partici- pants that are randomized must be included in the final analysis and analyzed according to the treatment group to which they were originally ...
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Surgical procedures for papillary thyroid carcinoma located in the thyroid isthmus: an intention-to-treat analysis
... an intention-to-treat principle (ITTA) using the preop- erative and intraoperative characteristics at the intraopera- tive decision point of applying either total thyroidectomy or other ...
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Intention-to-treat and transparency of related practices in randomized, controlled trials of anti-infectives
... assuming treat- ment failure may be preferable as they would result in a more conservative estimation of effect size, especially in subspecialties such as infectious diseases, where dichot- omous clinical ...
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Randomised controlled trials and clinical maternity care: moving on from intention to treat and other simplistic analyses of efficacy
... to treat- ment, but it does nothing about the causality confusion created by the analysis-stage redefinition of treatment groups that may create prognostically distinct ...
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Fluconazole Prophylaxis in the Very Low Birth Weight Infant: Not Ready for Prime Time
... placebo-controlled, intention-to-treat study to determine if prophylactic fluconazole given to VLBW infants during the first 28 days of life decreases the incidence of candidal ...
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Clinical effectiveness of usual care with or without antidepressant medication for primary care patients with minor or mild-major depression: a randomized equivalence trial
... the differences increased over time and were maintained until the last follow-up assessments at 52 weeks, long after the treatment had ended. Therefore, it is not very likely that this effect was purely due to a placebo ...
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Tian Jiu therapy for allergic rhinitis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... All efficacy and safety analyses will be conducted accord- ing to the intention-to-treat (ITT) principle. Missing values will be imputed by the last-observation-carried- forward method. The statistical ...
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Pirfenidone improves survival in IPF: results from a real-life study
... Our finding is important because the 3 years survival rate did not change regardless the exclusion of the cases, which discontinued Pirfenidone. In our survival analysis, we included all patients who received Pirfeni- ...
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Implementation of specific strength training among industrial laboratory technicians: long term effects on back, neck and upper extremity pain
... the intention-to-treat analyses there were significant group by time effects for pain in the neck, right shoulder, right hand and lower back and DASH - resulting in significant reductions in pain (mean ...
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Protocol for a multicentre, parallel-arm, 12-month, randomised, controlled trial of arthroscopic surgery versus conservative care for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FASHIoN)
... Our inferences will be drawn from the intention- to-treat analysis. We will perform two exploratory secondary analyses. One will compare patients who received surgery and those who received conservative ...
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Multi-nutrient fortification of human milk for preterm infants
... Outcome data for inclusion in intention-to-treat analyses were not available for these infants High risk Mukhopadhyay 2007 Methods Randomised controlled trial Participants 166 VLBW infan[r] ...
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Practice parameter: Temporal lobe and localized neocortical resections for epilepsyReport of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, in Association with the American Epilepsy Society and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
... One intention-to-treat Class I randomized, controlled trial of surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy found that 58% of patients randomized to be evaluated for surgical therapy (64% of those who received ...
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Monitoring of brain oxygen saturation (INVOS) in a protocol to direct blood transfusions during cardiac surgery: a prospective randomized clinical trial
... This prospective randomized clinical study suggests that the use of cerebral oximetry (INVOS) as part of an algo- rithm to guide RBC transfusions can result in significant reduction of RBC use in patients undergoing ...
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Cost effectiveness of gargling for the prevention of upper respiratory tract infections
... Methods: Among participants in the gargling trial, 122 water-gargling and 130 control subjects were involved in the economic analysis. Sixty-day cumulative follow-up costs and effectiveness measured by quality-adjusted ...
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Effectiveness of school based humanistic counselling for psychological distress in young people: pilot randomized controlled trial with follow up in an ethnically diverse sample
... Those allocated to the UC condition were informed that, nine months from assessment, they could receive a standard program of weekly counselling for up to one school term. Twenty-six of the UC participants (86.7%) chose ...
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Efficacy and safety of Ojeok san in Korean female patients with cold hypersensitivity in the hands and feet: study protocol for a randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled, multicenter pilot study
... Voluntary participation and informed consent is mandatory for this trial before enrollment. All participants have the right to discontinue the study at any time. The detailed withdrawal criteria in this trial are as ...
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Effect of acupuncture on insomnia following stroke: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Faced with the limitations of currently available insom- nia treatments, more people are seeking complementary and alternative medicine options. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture ...
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Complications and long-term outcomes after open surgery for traumatic subaxial cervical spine fractures: a consecutive series of 303 patients
... primary intention to treat (surgery/conservative treatment con- verted to surgery), surgical method (anterior cervical de- compression and fusion (ACDF) with anterior plating, corpectomy with autologous ...
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