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Randomised controlled trials and iNPH [PDF]

Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
John D. Pickard, Alexis Joannides
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Randomised controlled trials [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1997
Editor,—We read with interest the recent editorial on evidence-based child health.1 We were struck by how easy it is to overlook a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in the Archives (or any other journal) if this is not indicated in the title or abstract. We wondered if this was the …
R, Phillips, T, Rothenberg
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Clinical trial management: a profession in crisis?

Trials, 2022
Clinical trial managers play a vital role in the design and conduct of clinical trials in the UK. There is a current recruitment and retention crisis for this specialist role due to a complex set of factors, most likely to have come to a head due to the ...
E. J. Mitchell, K. Goodman, N. Wakefield, C. Cochran, S. Cockayne, S. Connolly, R. Desai, S. Hartley, S. A. Lawton, K. Oatey, S. Rhodes, J. S. Savage, J. Taylor, N. F. J. Youssouf, on behalf of the UK Trial Managers’ Network   +14 more
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Letter on Predicting the number of sites needed to deliver a multicentre clinical trial within a limited time frame in the UK

Trials, 2020
When planning a multicentre clinical trial, it can be difficult to predict the time needed to open individual sites, and this in turn impacts on the total number of sites needed, the budget and the time frame for a clinical trial to be delivered ...
Rosemary Greenwood, Julie Pell, Paula Foscarini-Craggs, Katharine Wale, Ian Thomas, Charlotte Bradbury   +5 more
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Nurse-led randomised controlled trials in the perioperative setting: A scoping review

Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2022
Purpose: Nurses provide care at each phase of the complex perioperative pathway and are well placed to identify areas of care requiring investigation in randomised controlled trials.
Judy Munday, Niall Higgins, Saira Mathew, Lizanne Dalgleish, Anthony Batterbury, Luke Burgess, Jill Campbell, Lori Delaney, Bronwyn Griffin, James Hughes, Jessica Ingleman, Samantha Keogh, Fiona Coyer   +12 more
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Thinking territory historically. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: While the randomised controlled trial (RCT) is generally regarded as the design of choice for assessing the effects of health care, within the social sciences there is considerable debate about the relative suitability of RCTs and non ...
Bagnall, A, Colquitt, J, Dinnes, J, Garrett, Z, Oliver, K, Oliver, S, Rees, R, Shepherd, J, Sowden, A, Thomas, J, White, I   +10 more
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Clinical- and cost-effectiveness of the STAR care pathway compared to usual care for patients with chronic pain after total knee replacement: study protocol for a UK randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2018
Background Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic pain after total knee replacement. There is little evidence for effective interventions for the management of this pain, and current healthcare provision is patchy and inconsistent.
Vikki Wylde, Wendy Bertram, Andrew D. Beswick, Ashley W. Blom, Julie Bruce, Amanda Burston, Jane Dennis, Kirsty Garfield, Nicholas Howells, Athene Lane, Candy McCabe, Andrew J. Moore, Sian Noble, Tim J. Peters, Andrew Price, Emily Sanderson, Andrew D. Toms, David A. Walsh, Simon White, Rachael Gooberman-Hill   +19 more
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A systematic review of randomised controlled trials on the effectiveness of exercise programs on lumbo pelvic pain among postnatal women [PDF]

, 2015
Background: A substantial number of women tend to be affected by Lumbo Pelvic Pain (LPP) following child birth. Physical exercise is indicated as a beneficial method to relieve LPP, but individual studies appear to suggest mixed findings about its ...
A Garshasbi, A Gutke, A Gutke, A Gutke, A Gutke, A Tanvi, A Vleeming, AB Granath, AG Cramp, B Stuge, B Stuge, C Richardson, CB Olsson, CB Olsson, CD Skaggs, CF Yan, CG Maher, DB Stapleton, E Kontopantelis, E Líndal, E Thorell, EC Larsen, EK Bjelland, HM McCormack, HS Robinson, HS Robinson, HY Chang, I Mogren, IM Mogren, J Walker, JM Kendall, JM Mens, JM Mens, K Björklund, K Gjestland, L Nilsson-Wikmar, L Nilsson‐Wikmar, L Norén, M Kumle, M Perry, MA Mohseni-Bandpei, Meei-Ling Gau, NA Al‐Sayegh, NC Foley, NK Vøllestad, NN Ansari, O Airaksinen, O Ayanniyi, Pei-Ching Tseng, S Chaudry, S Malmqvist, SA Olivo, Shuby Puthussery, SM Wang, WWK To, Y Ko, Yannis Pappas, YL Ko   +57 more
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Clinical trial metadata:Defining and extracting metadata on the design, conduct, results and costs of 125 randomised clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme [PDF]

, 2015
Background:  By 2011, the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme had published the results of over 100 trials with another 220 in progress. The aim of the project was to develop and pilot ‘metadata’ on clinical trials funded by the HTA programme.  
Cook, Andrew, Davidson, Peter, Milne, Ruairidh, Raftery, James, Stanton, Louise, Turner, David, Young, Amanda   +6 more
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Design considerations for clinical trials in aphasia

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2020
The use of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design to evaluate the effectiveness of new interventions in aphasia has increased in recent years in response to calls for high quality evidence of the effectiveness of interventions for this population ...
Rebecca Palmer
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