Researchers set up a trial to test the effects of a drug on a specific group of people while measuring another for reference. The scientific design of a randomized controlled trial is as follows ...

Grades of Evidence for the Purported Quality of Study Design. Systematic ... In contrast, each randomized, controlled trial may have a distinct group of patients as a result of specific inclusion ...

Telephone services that offer smoking-cessation counseling (quitlines) have proliferated in recent years, encouraged by positive results of clinical trials. The question remains, however, whether ...

The following is a summary of “Effect of a systematic multi-dimensional assessment in severe uncontrolled asthma: a ...

The trial used a multicenter, longitudinal, randomized controlled design with three groups (MBCR, SET, and a minimal-treatment control group; 2:2:1 allocation ratio); assessments occurred at baseline ...

Pharmacist management of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus in this randomized trial resulted in more patients decreasing their glycosylated hemoglobin level by at least 1.0%. Objective: To ...

At the Social Impact Exchange conference in New York a few months ago, I heard the leader of a rapidly growing, national youth-serving nonprofit proudly declare that the organization was about to ...

It was predicted that the exposure condition would increase liking for, and consumption of, the vegetable relative to either the reward or control group. Design: Using a randomized controlled ...