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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...