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Evidence for risk of bias in cluster randomised trials: review of recent trials published in three general medical journals [PDF]
, 2003 Objective To examine the prevalence of a risk of bias associated with the design and conduct of cluster randomised controlled trials among a sample of recently published studies.
Puffer, S, Torgerson, D J, Watson, J
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Registry randomised trials: a methodological perspective
BMJ Open, 2023 Registry randomised clinical trials (RRCTs) have the potential to provide pragmatic answers to important clinical questions. RRCTs can be embedded into large population-based registries or smaller single site registries to provide timely answers at a ...
Christopher M Reid +13 more
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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in COPD: a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2018 A considerable proportion of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) entering pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) report psychological distress, which is often accompanied by poor physical health status. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been shown to improve psychological and physical outcomes in other chronic diseases.
Farver-Vestergaard, Ingeborg +10 more
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Trials, 2018 Background Many randomised controlled trials (RCTs) fail to meet their recruitment goals in time. Trialists are advised to include study recruitment strategies within their trials. EFFECTS is a Swedish, academic-led RCT of fluoxetine for stroke recovery.
Erik Lundström +4 more
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Data for Thinking Healthy Programme Pakistan trial (THPP-Pakistan) [PDF]
, 2018 An anonymised dataset of 570 women (one row per woman) who gave informed consent to participate in a cluster randomised, parallel, superiority, controlled trial in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2014-2017. The intervention was an adapted version of the Thinking
Ahmad, Ikhlaq +7 more
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The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era.
PLoS Medicine, 2020 Deirdre Harrington and Michelle O'Reilly discuss the article "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the GoActive intervention to increase physical activity among UK adolescents: A cluster randomised controlled trial" by Kirsten Corder and colleagues.
Deirdre M Harrington, Michelle O'Reilly
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022 Background General medical practitioner (GP) recruitment and subsequent data collection in clinical practice are challenging and may limit successful completion of a large-scale trial.
Hazel J. Jenkins +7 more
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Lessons learnt during a complex, multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial: the ProAct65+ trial [PDF]
Trials, 2013 Failure to recruit to target or schedule is common in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Innovative interventions are not always fully developed before being tested, and maintenance of fidelity to the intervention during trials can be problematic.
Stevens, Zoe +9 more
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Effects of ethics communication in health care: a cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
BMC Med EthicsAbstract Background Studies show that healthcare professionals encounter ethically difficult situations in everyday clinical practice, and there is a need for interprofessional communication in organised forms. Ethics communication in groups (ECG), based on Habermas’s theory of communicative actions, is a form of ...
Margareta B, Ulf I, C FG.
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Treating and Preventing Influenza in Aged Care Facilities: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]
, 2012 PMCID: PMC3474842This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Alexander E. Rosewell +13 more
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