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A systematic review of the usage of flow diagram in cluster randomized trials [PDF]

Praxis Medica, 2014
Flow diagram represent an integral part of consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT). Its use in reporting cluster randomization trials is highly recommended.
Kostić M., Ilić A., Bukumirić Z., Jovanović J., Trajković G.   +4 more
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Collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2007
Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.Background. Collaborative care is an effective intervention for depression which includes both organizational and patient-level intervention components.
A. Simpson, A. J. Lankshear, Cohen, D. Escott, D. Torgerson, D. A. Richards, J. Fletcher, K. Lovell, L. Gask, Lipsey, M. Barkham, M. Bland, Mann, Martell, none, none, none, P. Bower, Peveler, R. Richardson, S. Gilbody, S. Hennessy, Singleton, Spitzer, Ukoumunne, Ware, Wilkinson   +26 more
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Efficacy of a bivalent killed whole-cell cholera vaccine over five years: a re-analysis of a cluster-randomized trial

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is a feasible tool to prevent or mitigate cholera outbreaks. A better understanding of the vaccine’s efficacy among different age groups and how rapidly its protection wanes could help guide vaccination policy ...
Youyi Fong, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Jin Kyung Park, Florian Marks, John D. Clemens, Dennis L. Chao   +5 more
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Ethical issues in cluster randomized trials conducted in low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of two case studies

Trials, 2020
Background Cluster randomized trials are common in health research in low- and middle-income countries raising issues that challenge interpretation of standard ethical guidelines.
Augustine T. Choko, Gholamreza Roshandel, Donaldson F. Conserve, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Katherine Fielding, Karla Hemming, Reza Malekzadeh, Charles Weijer   +7 more
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Improving end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards using the Care Programme for the Last Days of Life : study protocol for a phase 3 cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The Care Programme for the Last Days of Life has been developed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in acute geriatric hospital wards.
Cohen, Joachim, Costantini, Massimo, Deliens, Luc, Smets, Tinne, Van Den Noortgate, Nele, Verhofstede, Rebecca   +5 more
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Introduction of clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthrosis: results of a cluster randomized trial

Научно-практическая ревматология, 2012
Objective: to evaluate the impact of the active introduction of clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthrosis (OA) by primary care physicians on the efficiency of performed therapy and patient adherence to treatment. Methods. This
Dmitri Mikhailovich Maksimov, O M Lesnyak   +1 more
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Design of trials for interrupting the transmission of endemic pathogens [PDF]

, 2016
Many interventions against infectious diseases have geographically diffuse effects. This leads to contamination between arms in cluster-randomized trials (CRTs).
Hiscox, Alexandra, Homan, Tobias, Maire, Nicolas, Mukabana, Richard, Silkey, Mariabeth, Smith, Thomas A., Takken, Willem   +6 more
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Randomization-Based Confidence Intervals for Cluster Randomized Trials [PDF]

, 2020
In a cluster randomized trial (CRT), groups of people are randomly assigned to different interventions. Existing parametric and semiparametric methods for CRTs rely on distributional assumptions or a large number of clusters to maintain nominal ...
Rabideau, Dustin J, Wang, Rui
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The mixed model for repeated measures for cluster randomized trials: a simulation study investigating bias and type I error with missing continuous data

Trials, 2020
Background Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) are a design used to test interventions where individual randomization is not appropriate. The mixed model for repeated measures (MMRM) is a popular choice for individually randomized trials with longitudinal ...
Melanie L. Bell, Brooke A. Rabe
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Ethical Challenges of Randomized Violence Intervention Trials: Examining the SHARE intervention in Rakai, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2016
ObjectiveWe identify complexities encountered, including unanticipated crossover between trial arms and inadequate 'standard of care' violence services, during a cluster randomized trial (CRT) of a community-level intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV ...
Nalugoda, Fred, Namatovu, Fredinah, Paul, Amy, Ssekubugu, Robert, Wagman, Jennifer A   +4 more
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