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Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review.
(2019-03)OBJECTIVES: The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials extension for the stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial (SW-CRT) is a recently published reporting guideline for SW-CRTs. We assess the quality of reporting of a ... -
Quantifying the economic impact of government and charity funding of medical research on private research and development funding in the United Kingdom.
(2016-02-24)BACKGROUND: Government- and charity-funded medical research and private sector research and development (R&D) are widely held to be complements. The only attempts to measure this complementarity so far have used data from ... -
RAMESES publication standards: meta-narrative reviews
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RAMESES publication standards: realist syntheses
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Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a task-based weight management group programme.
(2019-04-02)BACKGROUND: Obesity is a rising global threat to health and a major contributor to health inequalities. Weight management programmes that are effective, economical and reach underprivileged groups are needed. We examined ... -
A randomised controlled trial is not a pilot trial simply because it uses a surrogate endpoint.
(2018)Background: It has been argued that true endpoints (or 'hard' endpoints) for clinical trials, which are meaningful to clinicians, researchers and patients alike, are limited to those that measure health status, survival ... -
Randomised controlled trial of gradual antipsychotic reduction and discontinuation in people with schizophrenia and related disorders: the RADAR trial (Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation and Reduction).
(2019-11-27)INTRODUCTION: Antipsychotic medication is effective in reducing acute symptoms of psychosis, but it has a range of potentially serious and debilitating adverse effects and is often disliked by patients. It is therefore ...