Baseline testing in cluster randomised controlled trials: should this be done?

Should desperate volunteers be included in randomised controlled trials?

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) sometimes recruit participants who are desperate to receive the experimental treatment. This paper defends the practice against three arguments that suggest it is unethical first, desperate volunteers are not in equipoise. Second clinicians, entering patients onto trials are disavowing their therapeutic obligation to deliver the best treatment; they are follo...

Anti-emetic trials in oncology: What should be done next?

Not everything that can be done should be done.

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Who Should be Interviewed? A Response from Cluster Analysis

Objective: This article presents an application of cluster analysis for social sciences researches especially those studies that have an interview as part of their data collection. This application is more suitable for sequential mixed method researchers who use quantitative data to frame subsequent qualitative subsamples for conducting interviews.  Methods: In more detail, the algorithm (i....

What Should be Done in the Future

• Catalyst recovery can be performed in an energy-efficient way by reducing the volume of distillation streams. • Temperature-sensititve catalysts can be recovered at relatively mild temperatures from high boiling compounds. • By enabling continuous operation, reactions can be run under steady-state conditions, e.g., at limited conversions. • Catalysts based on expensive metals or ligands can b...