randomised controlled trials
Dentures for randomised controlled trials
... Introduction: Randomised Controlled Trials are considered the gold standard for assessing the superiority of one clinical treatment modality over ...these trials found no difference because ...
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Recruitment to randomised controlled trials with children
... multicentre randomised controlled trials included in the review, described patterns of recruitment and reported trialists’ perceptions of factors associated with good or poor ...of trials ...
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The possibility of critical realist randomised controlled trials
... If randomised controlled trials can be regarded as epidemiological proxies that substitute probabilistic controls over extraneous factors for closed experiments, their examination of the powers of ...
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Investigating causal mechanisms in randomised controlled trials
... of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can be extended beyond the estimation of the effects of interven- tions on health ...some trials, the interest is in the mechanisms through which the ...
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Design, analysis and presentation of factorial randomised controlled trials
... Background Randomised controlled trials provide the best quality evi- dence in medical research, [1] but they require a large commitment of time and effort, certainly from the inves- tigators and ...
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Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist?
... Randomized controlled trials, Realist evaluation, Scientific realism, Causation Background In October 2015, Jamal and colleagues [1] published a paper on realist randomised controlled ...
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Should desperate volunteers be included in randomised controlled trials?
... in randomised controlled trials? Abstract Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) sometimes recruit participants who are desperate to receive the experimental ...onto trials ...
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An assessment of the quality of randomised controlled trials conducted in China
... of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in China and published in 2004 was undertaken to describe their characteristics, assess the quality of their reporting, and where possible, the ...
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Missing data in randomised controlled trials: a practical guide
... Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are well established as the preferred method for evaluat- ing ...of trials knows that missing data are ...group trials showed that 69% did not report ...
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A guide to performing a peer review of randomised controlled trials
... This paper describes some of the main steps that peer reviewers in general and, in particular, those performing reviewes of randomised controlled trials (RCT), can use when carrying out a review. It ...
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Randomised controlled trials of attentional bias retraining in smokers
... Smokers attend preferentially to smoking-related cues in the environment, known as attentional bias. Evidence suggests that attentional bias is related to craving and relapse. Attentional retraining (AR) procedures have ...
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Trials and tribulations : challenges and prospects for randomised controlled trials of social work with children
... for randomised controlled trials of social work with children Abstract Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have rarely been used in evaluations of social work interventions with ...
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Likely country of origin in publications on randomised controlled trials and controlled clinical trials during the last 60 years
... of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in The Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2005 (CD-ROM version) [4,5] to identify the number of publi- cations on randomised controlled trials or controlled ...
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Progression criteria in trials with an internal pilot : an audit of publicly funded randomised controlled trials
... individually randomised controlled trials funded by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme and to summarise the progression criteria chosen in these ...
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Progression criteria in trials with an internal pilot: an audit of publicly funded randomised controlled trials
... individually randomised controlled trials funded by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme and to summarise the progression criteria chosen in these ...
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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 ...unmodified trials can be rejected as invalid and is ...
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Nonadherence to treatment protocol in published randomised controlled trials: a review
... of randomised controlled trials ...100 trials, but reporting on such nonadherence was often vague or ...of trials with short-term interventions and 89% of trials with long-term ...
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Factors associated with citation rate of randomised controlled trials in physiotherapy
... Keywords: Randomised controlled trials, Quality ratings, Physiotherapy, Bibliometrics, Periodicals Background The dissemination of research findings requires publica- tion in peer-reviewed journals, ...
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Nonadherence to treatment protocol in published randomised controlled trials: a review
... of randomised controlled trials ...100 trials, but reporting on such nonadherence was often vague or ...of trials with short-term interventions and 89% of trials with long-term ...
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A concept for trial institutions focussing on randomised controlled trials in surgery
... Abstract Background: Although considered the reference standard for generating valid scientific evidence of a treatment's benefits and harms, the number of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) ...
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