The conduct of a clinical trial is a collaborative effort between investigators, participants and a range of professionals involved both centrally and locally in the coordination and execution of the study. In this article, the key steps to conducting a randomized controlled trial are summarized. ...
Based on existing study design elements that favoured a pragmatic study design, we developed the study protocol to make the design as pragmatic as possible. The basic study flow (Figure 1) resembles that of a traditional randomized, controlled trial. However, for each aspect of the trial, we ...
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How do hospital professionals involved in a randomised controlled trial perceive the value of genotyping vs. PCR-ribotyping for control of hospital acquired C. difficile infections? Ala Szczepura, Susan Manzoor, Katherine Hardy, Nigel Stallard, Helen Parsons, Savita Gossain & Peter M Hawke...
All of that said, one randomized controlled trial found that calorie restrictionwas still neededto cause weight loss even when someone was fasting, meaning that sticking to a healthy diet is key. A 2023 study from theJournal of the American Heart Associationdid not supportthe use of time‐restr...
How pragmatic or explanatory is the randomized, controlled trial? The application and enhancement of the PRECIS tool to the evaluation of a smoking cessati... How pragmatic or explanatory is the randomized, controlled trial? The application and enhancement of the PRECIS tool to the evaluation of ...
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When running a randomized controlled trial (RCT), a clinical site may face a situation when an eligible trial participant is to be randomized to the treatment that is not available at the site. In this case, there are two options: not to enroll the parti
randomized controlled trial of solutions currently available in the West, Eleview®and 6% hydroxyethyl starch were the best performing solutions for ESD in a porcine model. So, even though viscous solutions (namely starch or the new Eleview) can be relatively expensive, they can be particularly...
Efficacy and safety of transcranial magnetic stimulation in acute treatment of major depression: a multisite randomized controlled triall Biol. Psychiatry., 62 (2007), pp. 1208-1216 Google Scholar [13] K. Garcia, P. Flynn, K. Pierce, M. Caudle Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treats...