Randomized Controlled Trials on PET: A Systematic Review of Topics, Design, and Quality [PDF]
Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2012 Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) add important information to diagnostic accuracy studies in the evaluation of PET and PET/CT. We evaluated how many RCTs on PET existed, which clinical topics they addressed, and what their design and quality were ...
Fülöp Scheibler +8 more
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Assessing and minimising risk of bias in randomized controlled trials of tobacco cessation interventions: Guidance from the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group [PDF]
Addiction, 2023 The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group has created risk of bias tools which are topic-agnostic. In 2012 the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group created guidance specific to considerations for reviews of randomized controlled trials of tobacco cessation ...
Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie, Lindson, Nicola
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Effectiveness of Topic-specific Infobuttons: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008 Infobuttons are decision support tools that provide links within electronic medical record systems to relevant content in online information resources. The aim of infobuttons is to help clinicians promptly meet their information needs. The objective of this study was to determine whether infobutton links that direct to specific content topics ("topic ...
Guilherme Del Fiol +5 more
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Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Effect of Television Advertising on Food Intake in Children: Why Such a Sensitive Topic is Lacking Top-Level Evidence? [PDF]
Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 2014 The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review of evidence coming from randomized controlled trials (RCT) aimed at assessing the effect of television advertising on food intake in children from 4 to 12 years old.
Darío Gregori +5 more
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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 OBJECTIVE To determine how health-related rehabilitation services have been described in recently published randomized clinical trials, using the International Classification System for Service Organization in Health-Related Rehabilitation (ICSO-R 2.0 ...
Nada Anđelić +9 more
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Mechanical Low Back Pain: Secular Trend and Intervention Topics of Randomized Controlled Trials [PDF]
Physiotherapy Canada, 2015 Purpose: To evaluate the number of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) focusing on mechanical low back pain (MLBP) rehabilitation, the secular (i.e., long-term) trend, and the distribution of interventions studied. Methods: All included RCTs were extracted from all Cochrane systematic reviews focusing on rehabilitation therapies for MLBP ...
Greta Castellini +4 more
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TOPical Imiquimod treatment of high-grade Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (TOPIC trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Cancer, 2016 Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is the premalignant condition of cervical cancer. Whereas not all high grade CIN lesions progress to cervical cancer, the natural history and risk of progression of individual lesions remain unpredictable.
Margot M. Koeneman +12 more
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Methodological and statistical topics in randomized controlled clinical trials [PDF]
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 1999 Cláudia Caminha Escosteguy
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TOPical Imiquimod treatment of residual or recurrent cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (TOPIC-2 trial): a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Cancer, 2018 Cervical dysplasia (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)) is caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and is most common in women of reproductive age. Current treatment of moderate to severe CIN is surgical. This procedure has potential complications, such as haemorrhage, infection and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies.
Anna J. M. van de Sande +5 more
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Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in non-bleeding ICU patients -TOPIC TRIAL: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Trials, 2011 BackgroundFresh frozen plasma (FFP) is an effective therapy to correct for a deficiency of multiple coagulation factors during bleeding. In past years, use of FFP has increased, in particular in patients on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and has expanded
Marcella CA Müller +6 more
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