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How necessary are randomized controlled trials? [PDF]

, 2012
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often deemed the gold standard for testing new treatments. This belief in turn justifies recruiting patients into such trials even when it is suspected that a new treatment is superior – although patients in the ...
Northcott, Robert
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Fecal incontinence: the quality of reported randomized, controlled trials in the last ten years. [PDF]

, 2008
This study was designed to analyze the characteristics and the quality of reporting of randomized, controlled trials published during the last ten years on fecal ...
Norton, C., Parés, D., Chelvanayagam, Sonya   +2 more
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Systematic techniques for assisting recruitment to trials (START): study protocol for embedded, randomized controlled trials [PDF]

, 2014
Background Randomized controlled trials play a central role in evidence-based practice, but recruitment of participants, and retention of them once in the trial, is challenging.
Anne Kennedy, Shaun Treweek, Madurasinghe, Vichithranie, Wallace, P, David J. Collier, Paul Wallace, Kennedy, A, Bower, P; id_orcid, Peter Knapp, Treweek, S, Small, N; id_orcid, Bower, P, Eldridge, Sandra, Graffy, Jonathan, Graffy, J, David Torgerson, Wallace, Paul, Knapp, P, Nicola Small, Hughes-Morley, A, Salisbury, Chris, Treweek, Shaun, Eldridge, S, Chris Salisbury, Small, N, Torgerson, D, Peter Bower, Bower, Peter, Hughes-Morley, Adwoa, Madurasinghe, V, Knapp, Peter, Torgerson, David, Rick, J, Adwoa Hughes-Morley, Rick, Jo, Salisbury, C, Kennedy, Anne, Collier, DJ, Jonathan Graffy, Vichithranie Madurasinghe, Jo Rick, Collier, David J, Small, Nicola, Sandra Eldridge   +43 more
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Risk of bias assessment for randomized controlled trials, randomized crossover trials and non-randomized trials and crossover trials.

, 2023
Risk of bias assessment for randomized controlled trials, randomized crossover trials and non-randomized trials and crossover trials. 
Mikkel Holm Hjortshoej Jensen (15458816)
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CONSORT for Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials in Journal and Conference Abstracts: Explanation and Elaboration [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Clear, transparent, and sufficiently detailed abstracts of conferences and journal articles related to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are important, because readers often base their assessment of a trial solely on information in the ...
Hopewell, S, Douglas G Altman, Moher, D., Mike Clarke, Schulz, KF, Hopewell, S., Wager, E., Philippa Middleton, The, CG, Sally Hopewell, Schulz, K., Moher, D, Altman, DG, CONSORT Group, Middleton, P, Clarke, M., Hopewel, S, Kenneth F Schulz, Elizabeth Wager, Wager, E, Middleton, P., Hopewell, Sally, David Moher, Altman, D., null null, Clarke, Michael, Haynes, B., Rennie, D., Gebski, V., Goodman, S., Ellenberg, S., Elbourne, D., Schriger, D., Altman, D.G., Grunberg, S., Devereaux, D.J., Montori, V.M., James, A., Pocock, S., Boutron, I., Diderot, D., Dickersin, K., Simera, I.Iveta, Juhn, P., Gøtzsche, P.C., Schulz, K.F., Groves, T., Babour, V., Mulro, C., Minckle, D., Berlin, J.   +50 more
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The external validity of published randomized controlled trials in primary care [PDF]

, 2009
Background - A criticism of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in primary care is that they lack external validity, participants being unrepresentative of the wider population.
Jones Robert O, McCowan, Colin, Jones, R, Colin McCowan (434192), McCowan, C, Fahey, T., Jones, Robert O., Colin McCowan, Montgomery, AA, Fahey Tom, Jones, RO, Fahey, T, McCowan Colin, Alan A Montgomery, Montgomery Alan A, Jones Ritu, Fahey, Thomas, Robert O Jones, Ritu Jones (7944167), Tom Fahey (7896266), Robert O. Jones (7944170), Alan A. Montgomery (7705694), Tom Fahey, Ritu Jones, Mccowan, C., Montgomery, A.A., Jones, R.O., Montgomery, Alan A., Jones, R., Jones, Ritu, Mccowan, C.; id_orcid   +30 more
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Three controlled trials of interventions to increase recruitment to a randomized controlled trial of mobile phone based smoking cessation support. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Recruitment is a major challenge for trials but there is little evidence regarding interventions to increase trial recruitment. We report three controlled trials of interventions to increase recruitment to the Txt2stop trial.
Free, Caroline, Robertson, Steven, Knight, Rosemary, Hoile, Elizabeth   +3 more
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TREND checklist for non-randomized controlled trials.

, 2023
TREND checklist for non-randomized controlled trials.
Angelika Cordey-Henke (14676135), Ching-Chu Sun (14676141), Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (3161898), Christoph Braun (224797), Matthias Klosinski (14676138), Stephan Kuester-Gruber (14676126), Theda Faisst (14676129), Giulia Righetti (11849039), Vera Schick (14676132)   +8 more
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The Differences Between Same-Day and Staged (Circumferential) Fusion Surgery in Adult Spinal Deformity: Protocol for a Systematic Review

JMIR Research Protocols, 2022
BackgroundAdult spinal deformity (ASD) is a deformity in the curvature of the adult spine. ASD includes a range of pathology that leads to decreased quality of life for patients as well as debilitating morbidities.
Mert Marcel Dagli, Shivek Narang, Kashish Malhotra, Gabrielle Santangelo, Connor Wathen, Yohannes Ghenbot, Dominick Macaluso, Ahmed Albayar, Ali Kemal Ozturk, William C Welch   +9 more
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The effectiveness of bright light exposure in shift-worker nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Sleep Science, 2020
Bright light exposure is as one of the non-pharmacological measures to sleep management in shift-worker. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of bright light exposure in shift-worker nurses.
Seyedeh Zahra Aemmi, Eesa Mohammadi, Hamid Heidarian-Miri, Malek Fereidooni-Moghadam, Hatam Boostani, Kourosh Zarea   +5 more
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