... A randomized, controlledclinical trial: The effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on generalized anxiety disorder among Chinese community patients: protocol for a randomized ... disorder Methods A three armed randomized, controlledclinical trial including 9-month post-treatment follow-up is proposed Participants screened positive using the Structure Clinical Interview for DSM-IV ... responding for individuals with generalized anxiety Although it has been shown in randomizedcontrolledclinicaltrials that MBCT can reduce the likelihood of relapse in people with recurrent episodes...
... rehabilitation program The feasibility, safety and clinical efficacy of such a brief psychological intervention will be evaluated in a four-arm randomizedcontrolledclinical trial with a Page of 12-month ... emotional expression in their social environments [36] Methods Study design A four-arm randomizedcontrolledclinical trial with four follow-up assessments (immediately before discharge from hospital, ... writing procedure with their patients and to examine its effects empirically in many randomizedclinicaltrials involving individuals with physical disorders such as breast cancer [15-18], rheumatoid...
... treatment or concomitant use of other therapies (n = 89) Five randomizedcontrolledtrials (RCTs) [5-9] and two controlledclinicaltrials (CCTs) [10,11] Page of fulfilled the inclusion criteria ... Page of Figure Flowchart of the selection process for the trials RCT: randomizedcontrolled trial CCT: controlledclinical trial UOS: uncontrolled observational study Acknowledgements This research ... 2.73], NS n.r.: not reported; NS: no significance; AT: acupuncture; RCT: randomizedcontrolled trial; CCT: controlledclinical trial; VAS: visual analog scale Response rate was divided to four...
... emulsion on plasma phospholipid fatty acids, inflammatory markers, and clinical outcomes in septic patients: a randomized, controlledclinical trial Critical Care 2010, 14:R5 ... fish oil administration [23] but this study was not controlled and relied upon historical data for comparison Thus, this is the first randomised, controlled study reporting reduced length of hospital ... age and glucose supply between the two groups, these were controlled for in statistical analysis of cytokines, gas exchange parameters and clinical outcomes Even after accounting for the differences...
... Several clinical interests regarding lung volume reduction surgery for severe emphysema: meta-analysis and systematic review of randomizedcontrolledtrials Wei Huang, 1Wen R ... to address several clinical interests regarding lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for severe emphysema using meta-analysis and systematic review of randomizedcontrolledtrials (RCTs) Methods: ... Reynolds DJ, Gavaghan DJ, et al Assessing the quality of reports of randomizedclinical trials: is blinding necessary? Control Clin Trials 1996;17(1):1-12 23 Stammberger U, Klepetko W, Stamatis G,...
... algorithm for designing group sequential clinicaltrials Biometrics 2001, 57:972-974 Demets DL, Ware JH: Asymmetric group sequential boundaries for monitoring clinicaltrials Biometrika 1982, 69:661-663 ... Sequential Methods with Applications to ClinicalTrials Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press; 2000:171–189 The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ARDS ClinicalTrials Network: Higher versus lower positive ... with the acute respiratory distress syndrome N Engl J Med 2004, 351:327-336 Anonymous: Randomized, placebo -controlled trial of lisofylline for early treatment of acute lung injury and acute respiratory...
... bars) and strict glycemic control group (open bars) of seven randomizedcontrolledtrials Original single-center randomizedcontrolledtrials (RCTs) from Leuven [1,2]; single-center RCTs [3,4]; ... group) [7] Meta-analyses of randomizedcontrolledtrials of strict glycemic control Two meta-analyses, of which the first included the first five RCTs [18], and the second all trials except the last ... Schultz et al Critical Care 2010, 14:223 http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/223 Page of Table Randomizedcontrolledtrials on strict glycemic control (target blood glucose levels of 80 to 110 mg/dl) Main...
... Walach H, Sadaghiani C, Dehm C, Bierman D The therapeutic effect of clinical trials: understanding placebo response rates in clinical trials: a secondary analysis BMC Med Res Methodol 2005; 5: 26-37 ... [23] Although a significant number of clinical study reports support the anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties of Boswellia extract [24-27], no human clinical studies were done to prove ... December 2008 (clinical trial registration number: ISRCTN80793440) The study protocol was evaluated and approved by the ASRAM Institutional Review Board (IRB) An overview of the clinical study...
... Design Step Pre -Clinical Studies PHASE PHASE PHASE Safety/Dosing Studies Stop Stop Uncontrolled Efficacy/ Safety Studies Stop Design potentially positive RandomizedControlledTrials (RCTs) No ... more fair? Ethics, subject allocation, and randomizedclinicaltrials J Med Ethics 1998, 24:401-408 Chard JA, Lilford RJ: The use of equipoise in clinicaltrials Soc Sci Med 1998, 47:891-898 Karlawish ... the ethics of randomizedclinicaltrials Bioethics 1995, 9:127-148 Djulbegovic B: Acknowledgement of uncertainty: a fundamental means to ensure scientific and ethical validity in clinical research...
... that our thinking about clinicaltrials is about to change dramatically Clinical studies conducted during early phases of drug development will increasingly consist of small trials with a high density ... implications for smallest detectable difference, minimal clinically important difference, and analysis of treatment effects in randomizedcontrolledtrials J Rheumatol 2001, 28:892-903 22 Lassere M, ... notion, serial ST analysis with evaluation of biomarkers was recently included in several randomizedclinicaltrials of both disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and biological agents [6,13,24-27]...
... interstitial lung disease, randomizedcontrolled trials, observational studies, multicenter studies, clinicaltrials phase II, clinicaltrials phase III, and clinicaltrials phase IV Diffuse alveolar ... meta-analysis results in the randomizedclinicaltrials Comparison of (a) the forced vital capacity (FVC) and (b) the diffusing overall meta-analysis results in the randomizedclinicaltrials capacity for ... heterogeneity unidentified by our review The shortage of randomizedcontrolledtrials on this topic is a limitation, and larger randomizedcontrolledtrials are needed to better understand the role of...
... locally? To put this another way, how can we marry what many consider to be the ideal of the randomizedcontrolled trial (RCT) with methods that address the difficulty of retaining interventional ... to learn something about the implementation process itself How PAR may be integrated with randomizedcontrolled trails in implementation research design We propose integrating the RCT and PAR ... implementation process unfolds in each clinical setting This understanding will be key to our ability to implement interventions successfully in other clinical settings Thus, a greater appreciation...
... locally? To put this another way, how can we marry what many consider to be the ideal of the randomizedcontrolled trial (RCT) with methods that address the difficulty of retaining interventional ... to learn something about the implementation process itself How PAR may be integrated with randomizedcontrolled trails in implementation research design We propose integrating the RCT and PAR ... implementation process unfolds in each clinical setting This understanding will be key to our ability to implement interventions successfully in other clinical settings Thus, a greater appreciation...
... both a measure of symptom severity and a time component The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE), a large, randomized, double-blind, 18-month National Institutes of ... than patients treated with ziprasidone (p = 08) risperidone and quetiapine in large, randomizedclinicaltrials measuring time to discontinuation for any cause [3,28], echoing our results and ... (NNT) and Number Needed to Harm (NNH) in Randomized, Blinded Trials Comparing Olanzapine to Other Atypical Antipsychotics for Treatment of Schizophrenia Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses...
... experiments in rodents have provided the basis for human clinicaltrials In a randomized, double-blind, multicenter, and controlled phase II clinical trial involving 236 patients with severe active ... participation in other clinicaltrials within months before enrolment Study design The study was a two-to-one, eight-center, 24-week follow-up, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, and MTX -controlled ... arthritis clinicaltrials J Clin Epidemiol 1997, 50:757-763 22 Lehman AJ, Esdaile JM, Klinkhoff AV, Grant E, Fitzgerald A, Canvin J: A 48-week, randomized, double-blind, double-observer, placebo-controlled...
... oscillation for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: a randomized sham -controlled clinical trial Respiratory Research 2011 12:120 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed ... encouraging and can be used to inform the design of larger-scale, more definitive trials testing the efficacy of HFCWO on clinical endpoints (e.g., feasibility of using HFCWO for acute asthma or COPD, ... Gelinas D, Becker B, Mitsumoto H: High-frequency chest wall oscillation in ALS: An exploratory randomized, controlled trial Neurology 2006, 67:6 Morrison L, Agnew J: Oscillation devices for airway...
... under clinical procedure Dogs with previous acupuncture experience were also excluded from the study Study design The study was carried out as a randomised placebo -controlled and observer-blind clinical ... canine hip dysplasia (CHD) included in a double blind randomizedclinical trial The numbers (n) indicate the number of dogs within each strata and randomized groups (G) = Gold implantation group (P) ... results of the clinical trial have been reported elsewhere (Jæger et al 2004) Gold bead implantation in dogs with hip dysplasia 61 Table Number of dogs participating in a clinicalcontrolled therapy...
... A multicenter, randomized, controlledclinical trial of transfusion requirements in critical care Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group N ... predictive factors and timing of events Given the limitations of post hoc analysis of clinicaltrials data, a randomized trial of transfusion strategies is warranted to resolve the disparity in ... limitations that deserve consideration First, this was a post hoc analysis of data from three clinical trials, none of which were designed to address the question of appropriate transfusion thresholds...
... trials (a) Mean arterial pressure (MAP) goals in sepsis trials (b) Central venous pressure (CVP) goals in sepsis trialstrials (c) Pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) goals in sepsis trials ... management of patients across these clinicaltrials of sepsis Hemodynamic criteria We examined the Methods sections for hemodynamic treatment goals for the clinical sepsis trials We abstracted both treatment ... variation in hemodynamic goals in clinicaltrials and whether this variation is associated with patient outcomes To better understand the hemodynamic goals in clinicaltrials in the sepsis research,...