The CONSORT statement is used worldwide to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials. Kenneth Schulz and colleagues describe the latest version, CONSORT 2010, which updates the reporting guideline based on new methodological evidence and accumulating experience.To encourage dissemination of the CONSORT 2010 Statement, this article is freely accessible on bmj.com and will also be pub...

critical thinking is necessary to read the scientific literature. however, in addition to questions about the science, often one must also question the meaning of the text. this article provides an example of the analyses needed to understand a single sentence. in so doing, it raises several interesting issues of meaning, measurement, statistical analyses, and the form in which results are pres...

As more regulatory reporting requirements for equity-linked insurance move towards dependence on stochastic approaches, insurance companies are experiencing increasing difficulty with detailed forecasting and more accurate risk assessment based on Monte Carlo simulations. While there is vast literature on pricing and valuations of various equity-linked insurance products, very few has focused o...

Internal control system in an organization preventing the dishonest financial reporting is need of present scenario especially Nepalese institutions. Therefore, this study intends to contribution internal towards performance commercial banks. To know descriptive research design has been applied assess current practice and its effect on In 280 employees from top 7 banks were selected based their...

In the research of migration, we can encounter application multidisciplinary approaches with use knowledge from existing theories, which implies need for statistical reporting. It is not always easy to determine who a migrant is, and studies exploring migration be dividing up according many criteria. Contemporary literature contains whole score dealing its determinants impacts on economy, etc. ...

Many corporate failures have occurred over the years as a result of poor financial reporting practices that eluded investors and other consumers data. The research used University for Development Studies (UDS) case study. study focused on three main goals: identifying emerging determinants quality reporting, examining efficacy adequacy UDS's internal control structure, determining how much Inte...

BACKGROUND/AIM  Using reliable outcome measures is a necessity for the occupational therapy profession in enabling valid assessments of clients. Although Cronbach's alpha is the most widely applied index of internal consistency reliability, there are misconceptions about its use and interpretation. This paper aims to guide assessment developers in paediatric occupational therapy, as well as pra...

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are among the most rigorous ways to determine the causal relationship between an intervention and important clinical outcome. Their use in veterinary medicine has become increasingly common, and as is often the case, with progress comes new challenges. Randomized clinical trials yield important answers, but results from these studies can be unhelpful or even mi...

BACKGROUND Stents are commonly used to treat patients with coronary artery disease. However, the quality of reporting internal and external validity data in published reports of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of stents has never been assessed.The objective of our study was to evaluate the quality of reporting internal and external validity data in published reports of RCTs assessing the st...