What are randomised controlled trials good for?

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 in cystic fibrosis: what, when and how?

What proportion of primary psychiatric interventions are based on evidence from randomised controlled trials?

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of psychiatric inpatients receiving primary interventions based on randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. DESIGN Retrospective survey. SETTING Acute adult general psychiatric ward. SUBJECTS All patients admitted to the ward during a 28 day period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Primary interventions were classifie...

What are routines good for?*

Routines are patterns of interaction between an agent and its world. Getting in or out of a car, changing lane, and flipping pages of a book can be routines for an agent if the agent consistently engages in these activities in a similar way. I.e., a task for an agent is a routine if the agent that has choices about how to accomplish that task, nevertheless does it in the same way. Consistently ...

What Are Ontologies Good For?

Ontology, in its original philosophical sense, is a fundamental branch of metaphysics focusing on the study of existence; its objective is to determine what entities and types of entities actually exist, and thus to study the structure of the world. In contrast, in computer science an ontology is an engineering artifact, usually a “conceptual model” of (some aspect of) the world, typically form...