Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) answer questions about the effectiveness of different care options: 'what effect does using treatment A or treatment B have on outcomes?' RCTs are important to nursing as they are the best study design for answering the question 'should I do this or that?
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) answer questions about the effectiveness of different care options: 'what effect does using treatment A or treatment B have on outcomes?' RCTs are important to nursing as they are the best study design for answering the question 'should I do this or that?
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is an experiment in which candidates are randomly assigned to one of two groups: the experimental group receives the intervention being tested while the other receives an alternative, or no intervention at all. The two groups are then compared to see if there...
The way recruiters’ present information to patients can influence whether or not the patient agrees to participate in an RCT. We know that many clinicians find it difficult to communicate about trials, including the concept and justification of randomisation. Current clinical guidance states that pati...
while Soucisse et al. and Naik et al. reported that self-reflecting on surgical tasks performed improved technical skills as well [55,57,65]. Ranney et al. furthermore showed that residents, who can reflect on their learning and thought processes are more in control and proceed to autonomy...
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) can be used to evaluate aspects of the effectiveness of complementary therapies. Given the individualised and non-blindable nature of many treatments, the design of such studies is often not trivial. One decision to be made is what specific research question is...
Invasive and minimally invasive treatment modalities for lower urinary tract symptoms: what are the relevant differences in randomised controlled trials?[J]. ... CD Mey - 《European Urology》 被引量: 73发表: 2000年 Minimally Invasive Treatment for Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: the Prostatic ...
The aim of this study is to describe and compare three statistical methods to allow for therapist effects in individually randomised controlled trials.Background. In an individually randomised controlled trial where the intervention is delivered by a health professional it seems likely that the ...
It would be prudent for consumers to await the findings of ongoing randomised trials before deciding on the balance between benefits and risks of male circumcision in the context of HIV infection [13] (p. 18). The main reason for this negative conclusion was selection bias: Selection bias was...
Published, peer-reviewed articles on cross-sectional studies, cohort studies or randomised control trials (RCTs) that reported data on FSW from which it was possible to extract or calculate the proportion practising AI and/or the number of AI and UAI acts over any recall period. Although grey...