Centre for Clinical Trials & Methodology: Recent submissions
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Behavioral Barriers of Tuberculosis Notification in Private Health Sector: Policy implication and Practice
Under-reporting of new tuberculosis (TB) cases is one of the main problems in TB control, particularly in countries with high incidence and dominating role of a private sector in TB cases diagnosing. The purpose of this ... -
Health System Trials
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Cardiovascular Functional Reserve Before and After Kidney Transplant.
(American Medical Association, 2020-02-05)Importance: Restitution of kidney function by transplant confers a survival benefit in patients with end-stage renal disease. Investigations of mechanisms involved in improved cardiovascular survival have relied heavily ... -
Supported accommodation for people with mental health problems: the QuEST research programme with feasibility RCT
<jats:sec id="abs1-1"> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Across England, around 60,000 people live in mental health supported accommodation: residential care, supported housing and floating outreach. Residential ... -
Sample size and power calculations for open cohort longitudinal cluster randomized trials.
(John Wiley and Sons, 2020-03-04)When calculating sample size or power for stepped wedge or other types of longitudinal cluster randomized trials, it is critical that the planned sampling structure be accurately specified. One common assumption is that ... -
Effectiveness of occupational e-mental health interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2019)Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the effectiveness of occupational e-mental health interventions aimed at stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, insomnia, mindfulness, well-being, and alcohol ... -
Facedown Positioning Following Surgery for Large Full-Thickness Macular Hole: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.
(American Medical Association, 2020-05-07)Importance: The value of facedown positioning following surgery for large full-thickness macular holes is unknown. Objective: To determine whether advice to position facedown postoperatively improves the outcome for large ... -
Informal payments for inpatient health care in post-health transformation plan period: evidence from Iran
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04-20)Background: In 2014, a revision of the national medical tariffs for inpatient health care services took place in Iran, and a new hotline was set up to report informal payments. It was expected that such measures would ... -
Randomised comparison of two household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five countries: the Every Newborn-INDEPTH study.
(Elsevier, 2020-04-18)BACKGROUND: An estimated 5·1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Household surveys, most notably the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), run in more than 90 countries and are the main data source from ... -
A tutorial on sample size calculation for multiple-period cluster randomized parallel, cross-over and stepped-wedge trials using the Shiny CRT Calculator.
(2020-06-01)It has long been recognized that sample size calculations for cluster randomized trials require consideration of the correlation between multiple observations within the same cluster. When measurements are taken at anything ...