Randomized controlled trials
OVERVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
... Randomized controlled trials are considered to be the gold standard in clinical studies to establish level of evidence in medical ...groups. Randomized control trial (RCT) is most powerful ...
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Randomized controlled trials – a matter of design
... Abstract: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the hallmark of evidence-based medicine and form the basis for translating research data into clinical ...clinical trials using the databases ...
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Evidence Type Classification in Randomized Controlled Trials
... Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) are a common type of experimental studies in the medical domain for evidence-based decision making. The ability to automatically extract the arguments proposed ...
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Aromatherapy for Laboring Women: A Meta Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
... were randomized controlled trials (RCTs), eligible types of participants were women in labor, and types of interventions included the use of any type of aromatherapy for labouring ...
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Randomized controlled trials of malaria intervention trials in Africa, 1948 to 2007: a descriptive analysis
... Africa. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are universally considered the best study type to rigorously assess whether an intervention is ...
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Developing a survey of barriers and facilitators to recruitment in randomized controlled trials
... randomised trials: strategies for trial enrolment and participation study: The STEPS study’ aimed to identify the factors asso- ciated with good and poor recruitment to multicenter trials ...of ...
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Diagnostic randomized controlled trials: the final frontier
... Diagnostic randomized controlled trials also eliminate or reduce the likelihood for many of the potential biases that threaten internal validity of diagnostic accuracy co- hort studies (Table ...
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Twins as Participants in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Review of Published Literature
... 1998). Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for testing interventions and ‘the most rigorous way of determining whether a cause–effect relationship exists between ...
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Characteristics of randomized controlled trials of yoga: a bibliometric analysis
... Four electronic databases, Medline/PubMed, Scopus, IndMED and the Cochrane Library were searched from their inception through February 12, 2014. The literature search was constructed around search terms for “yoga” and a ...
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Mapping randomized controlled trials of treatments for eczema - The GREAT database (The Global Resource of Eczema Trials: a collection of key data on randomized controlled trials of treatments for eczema from 2000 to 2010)
... for randomized controlled trials when preparing systematic reviews, when developing evidence-based guidelines and when applying for research funding for eczema ...for randomized ...
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Inadequate description of educational interventions in ongoing randomized controlled trials
... of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing educational interven- tions have been published in the last 10 years and cur- rently represent about 20% of the published results of RCTs ...
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A systematic appraisal of allegiance effect in randomized controlled trials of psychotherapy
... In this study, we show that experimenter’s allegiance effect inflates the reported effect sizes in randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy by 30 %. This treat- ment effect could be attributed ...
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Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): study protocol for embedded, randomized controlled trials
... Background: Randomized controlled trials play a central role in evidence-based practice, but recruitment of participants, and retention of them once in the trial, is ...Embedded trials are ...
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The quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials of electroacupuncture for stroke
... high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and RCT itself, especially those with double-blind placebo controls, are commonly regarded the highest level of evidence in judging the treatment ...
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NIDCAP: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials
... METHODS: Medline, CINAHL, Embase, PsychInfo, The Cochrane Library, Pediatric Academic Societies ’ Abstracts and Web of Science were searched in July 2010 and February 2012. The studies selected were randomized ...
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Towards Understanding of Medical Randomized Controlled Trials by Conclusion Generation
... Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) rep- resent the paramount evidence of clinical medicine. Using machines to interpret the massive amount of RCTs has the poten- tial of aiding clinical ...
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Lessons from the field: the conduct of randomized controlled trials in Botswana
... Other studies have found success in recruiting from diverse populations when they integrate knowledge from local collaborators such as an RCT of indigen- ous people in four countries (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and ...
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Quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials in polycystic ovary syndrome
... In response to concerns about quality of reporting of RCTs, an international group of scientists and editors developed and published in 1996, a common checklist for items to include in reports of RCTs, known as the Con- ...
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Use of clustering analysis in randomized controlled trials in orthopaedic surgery
... epidemiologist/clinical trials methodologist on the study ...(epidemiologist/clinical trials methodologist or biostatis- ...clinical trials methodologist on the study team, we are able to make ...
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Risk of bias of randomized controlled trials published in orthopaedic journals
... Our study has several strengths. First, we conducted a comprehensive hand search of the tables of contents of the top orthopaedic journals in a recent span of 5 years. Thus, the findings presented here for the included ...
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