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?
Virtual reality refers to simulated interactions with environments and events that are presented to the performer with the aid of technology. These so-calledvirtual environmentsmay mirror aspects of the real world or represent spaces that are far removed from it, while allowing various forms of user...
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely accepted as the gold standard for evaluating healthcare interventions [1,2] and decision makers are increasingly looking to the results of RCTs to guide practice. RCTs are a major, increasing component of both NHS-supported and non-commercially funde...
To estimate the proportion of psychiatric inpatients receiving primary interventions based on randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. Retrospective survey. Acute adult general psychiatric ward. All patients admitted to the ward during a 28 day period. Primary inter...
A cluster randomised controlled trial is a type of randomised controlled trial in which groups of subjects(as opposed to individual subjects) are randomised. ... Cluster-randomised controlled trials are used when there is a strong reason for randomising treatment and control groups over randomising...
4.1 Randomised Controlled Trials of Short-Term Outcomes Short-term outcomes were clinical cure, treatment failure, relapse, and mortality within 30 days after randomisation. 4.1.1 Lower- and Middle-Income Countries All the studies listed in the following sections recruited children aged 2−59 months...
For example, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials has shown that many probiotics are effective in preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea (6), including the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii and the bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus in combination with L. bulgaricus, L. rhamnosus strain GG [...
A meta-analysis of 13 randomised controlled trials concluded that while prophylactic antipyretics significantly reduced injection-site and systemic symptoms after vaccination, their use was associated with reduced antibody responses to most vaccine antigens.102A reduction in the response to pneumococcal conj...
Preregistration This study was preregistered at the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00012351). Keywords Mindful eating · Eating and weight disorders · Online intervention · Mechanisms of action · Randomized control trial (RCT) Eating is driven not only by the ...