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Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top ten threats to global health. There exists limited empirical evidence on effective approaches to address this threat.
Prajwol Nepal +9 more
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Fecal incontinence: the quality of reported randomized, controlled trials in the last ten years. [PDF]
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. +2 more
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This systematic review of randomized controlled trials investigated the effects of two religious/spiritual (R/S) practices (breathwork and chanting) on mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD ...
Meredith, Pamela +3 more
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Factors influencing the enrollment in randomized controlled trials in orthopedics
Background: Low enrollment rates are a threat to the external validity of clinical trials. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with lower enrollment rates in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving orthopedic procedures ...
Christopher T. Lim +4 more
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Dermatology and Randomized Control Trials
Well-designed and rigorously conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT) can produce most valid and precise scientific evidence. Any intervention, be it systemic or topical medicine, dermatology procedure needs to be tested for its efficacy in improving particular disease condition and RCT should come into mind of investigator.
Patel, Nayankumar, Sil, Amrita
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Background Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) are designed to reflect how an investigational treatment would be applied in clinical practice. As such, unlike their explanatory counterparts, they measure therapeutic effectiveness and are capable of ...
Robbe Saesen +6 more
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Visual data: a new tool to improve the presentation of clinical trial results
Randomized controlled trials are known to be the best tool to determine the effects of an intervention; however, most healthcare professionals are not able to adequately understand the results.
Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness of telehealth-delivered nutrition interventions: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials [PDF]
CONTEXT: Telehealth-delivered nutrition interventions are effective in practice; however, limited evidence exists regarding their cost-effectiveness.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of telehealth-delivered nutrition interventions for ...
Campbell, Katrina L +7 more
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Interpreting Randomized Controlled Trials
This article describes rationales and limitations for making inferences based on data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that obtaining a representative random sample from a patient population is impossible for a clinical trial because patients are accrued sequentially over time and thus comprise a convenience sample, subject only to ...
Pavlos Msaouel, Juhee Lee, Peter F Thall
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Background Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials constitute the gold standard in clinical research when testing the efficacy of new psychopharmacological interventions in the treatment of major depression.
Severus Emanuel +9 more
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