Commentary: educational initiatives deserve randomised controlled trials

Introducing “Agreement on what to Measure in Randomised Controlled Trials in Burn Care” Research Project

پروژه پژوهشی "توافق درباره‌ی پیامدهای قابل اندازه‌گیری در کارآزمایی های کنترل‌دار مربوط به مراقبت‌های سوختگی" توسط گروهی از پژوهش‌گران با تجربه، در حوزه سوختگی، زیر نظر دکتر Young از کشور انگلستان در حال انجام می‌باشد. هدف نهایی از انجام این مطالعه، تهیه و تدوین مجموعه‌ای از پیامدهای اساسی (core outcome set (COS)) است که در گزارش کارآزمایی های شاهد‌دار تصادفی مربوط به مراقبت‌های سوختگی باید مور...

Randomised controlled trials.

Quality of randomised controlled trials

Editor—The Save European Science campaign (www.SaveEuropeanResearch.org) was launched on 9 December 2003 out of concern for the future of academic and investigator led research in Europe with the advent of the European Union clinical trials directive (see p 240). It was launched from a cancer platform but is inclusive in spirit and has already gained momentum in cardiology, dermatology, and psy...

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs)--essentials.

Correspondence to: Y H Chan Tel: (65) 6317 2121 Fax: (65) 6317 2122 Email: chanyh@ cteru.gov.sg The prospective, randomised, controlled, blinded (if possible), sample-size calculated study with a preplanned statistical analysis and trial monitoring is undoubtedly the gold standard for a therapeutic or interventional clinical study. RCTs carried out recently have discredited some treatments deem...

Initiatives to improve childhood immunisation uptake: a randomised controlled trial.

ride IgG responses are shown in the table. The proportions of children who had antibody titres below the minimum protective level of 0.15ìg/ml before receiving their booster dose at 1 year of age was higher than previously reported with the more extended primary immunisation schedule. The mean increase in antibody titre after administration of the booster dose was 803-fold (95% confidence inter...