Ready-Made Versus Custom-Made Mandibular Repositioning Devices in Sleep Apnea: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Visual function after correction of distance refractive error with ready-made and custom spectacles: a randomized clinical trial.

PURPOSE To evaluate patient-reported outcome measures with the use of ready-made spectacles (RMS) and custom spectacles (CS) in an adult population in India with uncorrected refractive error (URE). DESIGN Prospective, double-masked, randomized trial with 1-month follow-up. PARTICIPANTS A total of 363 adults aged 18 to 45 years with ≥1 diopter (D) of URE (RMS, n = 183; CS, n = 180). INTERV...

Custom-made versus ready-to-wear treatments: behavioral propensities in physicians' choices.

To customize treatments to individual patients entails costs of coordination and cognition. Thus, providers sometimes choose treatments based on norms for broad classes of patients. We develop behavioral hypotheses explaining when and why doctors customize to the particular patient, and when instead they employ "ready-to-wear" treatments. Our empirical studies examining length of office visits ...

Custom Made Mold Brachytherapy

Conventional versus custom ablation in photorefractive keratectomy: randomized clinical trial.

PURPOSE To compare visual outcomes and changes in total higher-order aberrations (HOAs) between conventional photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and custom PRK SETTING: Department of Ophthalmology, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Negah Eye Center, Tehran, Iran. METHODS This clinical trial comprised eyes having bilateral...

Locally made ready to use therapeutic food for treatment of malnutrition a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a locally made ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in decreasing mild to moderate malnutrition. DESIGN A randomized open label, controlled trial. SETTING Pre-schools run by the Department of Community Health in Kaniyambadi administrative block, Vellore, India; duration of follow-up 3 months from the date of recruitment. PARTICIPANTS Pupils aged ...