The Swedish randomised controlled trial on mammography screening has been properly designed, conducted and analysed

Has screening mammography become obsolete?

Does a decision aid improve informed choice in mammography screening? Results from a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND Decision aids can support informed choice in mammography screening, but for the German mammography screening programme no systematically evaluated decision aid exists to date. We developed a decision aid for women invited to this programme for the first time based on the criteria of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards Collaboration. OBJECTIVE To determine whether a de...

Every Child Counts: testing policy effectiveness using a randomised controlled trial, designed, conducted and reported to CONSORT standards

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Long-term effects of mammography screening: updated overview of the Swedish randomised trials.

BACKGROUND There has been much debate about the value of screening mammography. Here we update the overview of the Swedish randomised controlled trials on mammography screening up to and including 1996. The Kopparberg part of the Two-County trial was not available for the overview, but the continuation of the Malmö trial (MMST II) has been added. The article also contains basic data from the tr...

Has Culling Been Properly Assessed as a Valid and Justified Control Intervention Measure for Zoonotic Diseases?

In their PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases research article ‘‘A Pilot Study for Control of Hyperendemic Cystic Hydatid Disease in China,’’ Zhang et al. [1] describe a research project conducted from 1987 to 1994 in Xinjiang, a multiethnic and multireligious province in western China. The study aimed to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of applying monthly praziquantel treatment to dogs ...