However, few strategies have been rigorously tested in randomized clinical trials and shown to have cognitive benefits. Nutritional approaches hold promise because the brain requires several nutrients for optimal health, and deficiencies in one or more of these nutrients may lead to accelerated memory ...
In a Cochrane review, Herd and colleagues (2012a) compared the effectiveness of speech and language therapy (SLT) versus placebo or no intervention for speech and voice problems in patients with PD. Relevant trials were identified by electronic searches of numerous literature databases including MEDLI...
In a review on prostate cancer screening, Ilic and colleagues (2011) concluded that prostate cancer screening did not significantly decrease all-cause or prostate cancer-specific mortality in a combined meta-analysis of 5 randomized controlled trials. Any benefits from prostate cancer screening may tak...
intravascular ultrasound imaging, conducted the initial clinical trials and established the Stanford Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions as a core laboratory for analysis of intravascular ultrasound clinical studies. He also invented the Smart Needle and is a co-inventor of the strain-reduc...
Pharma companies for example routinely forget that assays used in clinical trials are likely to IVDR controls too. Why would that be relevant? Well, how about all of your clinical trial data collected with the use of these assays not being valid – that should get your management’s attention...
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Policy Applicable CPT / HCPCS / ICD-10 Codes Policy Scope of Policy This Clinical Policy Bulletin addresses corneal remodeling. Medical Necessity Post-Cataract Post-Transplant Corneal Surgery Aetna considers correction of surgically induced astigmatism with a corneal relaxing incision (including limbal relax...
Simonson DC, Hu B, Arterburn DE et al (2022) Alliance of randomized trials of medicine vs metabolic surgery in type 2 diabetes (ARMMS-T2D): study rationale, design, and methods. Diabetes Obes Metab 24:1206–1215. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.14680 Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Liu...
However, the clinical value of DP for this indication needs to be validated by randomized controlled trials. Cochlear Hydrops Analysis Masking Procedure (CHAMP) Testing for Ménière's Disease Hong et al (2013) stated that even though it is currently not possible to prove a pathological diagnosis...
2,7 Pragmatic effectiveness trials are increasingly recognized as an essential component of medical evidence, in part because efficacy studies may overestimate effectiveness and true adherence.8Disposable N95 respirators and medical masks are both worn by HCP for self-protection; however, these masks ...