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There, randomised trials studied treatment delivered by appropriately trained and supervised lay people, and found it to be very effective.

It draws on a variety of evidence, not limiting itself to the results of randomised trials, as if they are the only route to truth.

This study had aery small number of participants and importantly did not include a randomised control group for comparison of results.

Even in medicine, a randomised trial can only show whether the average patient benefits; not whether any individual patient will benefit.

Nevertheless , the "randomised " deserve to win over a few converts in their evangelic zeal for proper controlled trials .

Most of the time, only sufficiently large randomised, blinded research is useful to estimate the efficacy of drugs and of other treatments.

The primary endpoint was overall survival in all randomised patients who received study medication at least once.

The study in Africa was done as a randomised controlled trial, which is the best way to see whether or not a treatment works.

To our knowledge, the efficacy and safety of mini-incisions in hip fracture surgery has not been studied in a randomised fashion.

This was an open, randomised balance cross-over study in 12 healthy male volunteers.

METHODS: SANAD was an unblinded randomised controlled trial in hospital-based outpatient clinics in the UK.

This was a prospective multicentre randomised controlled trial.

The next stage of drug development would normally be a large randomised study, but this may never happen.

We explored background variables possibly explaining the individual variation in treatment response or failure in a randomised trial.

Politicians and civil servants, faced with some fancy new idea, should get into the habit of asking for a proper randomised trial.

Economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials: design, conduct, analysis, and reporting.

But I know a few economists who would happily supervise a randomised trial.

Selection criteria All randomised controlled trials pertinent to the management of proximal humeral fractures were selected.

Some examples already exist where inclusion of non-randomised evidence in systematic reviews have been helpful.

This study is registered as an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial, number ISRCTN38354748.

Therefore, we cannot recommend ribavirin monotherapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C outside randomised trials.

But Western medicine focuses on the physiological cause, testing potential drugs in randomised, controlled trials.

Randomised trials show intensive behavioural interventions bring modest but sustained weight loss for adults.

Randomised controlled trials are now catching on in economics, especially development economics.

This was a good-sized (more than 1000 people) randomised controlled trial.

The safety and efficacy of fentanyl have been evaluated in 2 double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover studies.

METHODS: We enrolled women from 25 UK antenatal metabolic clinics in a multicentre randomised placebo-controlled trial.

The two economists made their names (and remade their discipline) by championing randomised trials.

A recent meta-analysis has contradicted the results of randomised studies on screening, but this study is clearly debatable.

But once those requirements are met, the program can decode anything from epic prose to randomised, ten-character passwords.

Previous evidence suggested that children learnt more with flip charts, but the randomised trial proved otherwise.

The findings of previous randomised trials have been inconsistent.

Effect of nicorandil on coronary events in patients with stable angina: the Impact Of Nicorandil in Angina (IONA) randomised trial.

This large trial was performed at 24 centres across Europe in a double-blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled fashion.

The randomised, as Ms Duflo and her comrades are called, liken their studies to the clinical trials that prove the efficacy of new drugs.

It is embarrassing even to have to make the case for randomised trials in social policy.

Banerjee argues that there is a solution: aid agencies should copy medical researchers and run randomised trials.

There are, of course, limits to randomised trials; good luck using one to evaluate the relative merits of fixed and floating exchange rates.

It completely blows cold randomised clinical trials, which don't take into account expectation.

This study is registered with the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial number 34123170.

The gold standard of scientific evidence is the randomised controlled trial, preferably one with a lot of people and held over a long time.

Lusardi says initial results are promising and full randomised trials are in progress.

It is the first randomised trial to examine the relationship between oestrogen therapy and coronary artery calcium in this age group.

It will generate randomised latitude-longitude pairs at irregular intervals.

This review includes evidence from 12 randomised controlled trials with a total of 578 participants.

We did a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of sputum-submission instructions on female patients.

The economist Bruce Sacerdote used the same technique that medical researchers would use to test a new headache remedy: a randomised trial.

Clearly large-scale, randomised testing is needed to find reliable average levels of non-paternity.

It is. Randomised trials in Africa in the middle of this decade proved it beyond doubt.

That would require a proper, randomised clinical trial.

Patients at risk will be randomised to receive dexamethasone or placebo treatment.

If a systematic review relies solely on data from randomised trials, it is open to a number of problems.

There is no published randomised controlled study on elderly hi fracture patients in the English literature.

4 were case reports, 4 randomised controlled trials and a quasi experimental.

Are "randomised evaluations" a better way of doing aid and development policy?

Volunteers were randomised to right or left immobilisation for circuit 2, and the contralateral wrist was immobilized for circuit 3.

The fund's first criterion calls for randomised trials.

The EPHT trial is the first European randomised controlled long-term hormone therapy trial.

Ms Duflo has made her name carrying out randomised trials of development projects, such as fertiliser subsidies and school recruitment.

They identified 11 studies (seven prospective studies and three randomised controlled trials) involving 149, 203 people.

A recent study revealed that only 207 of 2, 235 'randomised' trials reported in Chinese publications were appropriately randomised.

A randomised trial can prove that a remedy works, without necessarily showing why.

Results Of the 31 women randomised to a low GI diet, 9 (29%) required insulin.

There is no selection bias, she observes, since this is a randomised trial.

A more serious objection is that aid projects may cause wider problems that a randomised trial could not detect.

FINDINGS: 551 patients (median age 63 years, IQR 55-69) were enrolled and randomised, of whom 318 were treated per protocol.

Randomised controlled study of low -dose erythromycin for the prophylaxis of feed intolerance in preterm infants

Preventive home visits to elderly people Their effectiveness cannot be judged by randomised controlled trials

A randomised controlled trial of the prevention of CHD and other vascular events by BP and cholesterol lowering in a factorial study design

Efficacy and safety of galantamine in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: multicentre randomised controlled trial

Randomised controlled trial of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of dystocia in first stage of labour

In 3 non-randomised trials in humans, bone marrow stem cells were injected via the infarcted artery or round the infarcted area;

Systematic Reviews: New Challenges Relating to Non-randomised Studies and Diagnostic Test Accuracy

Treatment of ocular hypertension and open angle glaucoma: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with leflunomide: a double-blind, randomised control study

Randomised trial of simulect versus placebo for control of acute rejection in renal allograft recipients

Reviews of Major Outcomes of ACE Inhibitors on Blood-pressure-lowering Treatment Randomised trials

Britain has completed the world's biggest randomised trial of telehealth technology, including gizmos from Philips

Systematic review of randomised controlled trial of iodised salt for preventing iodine deficiency disorders

Drop-out and mood improvement: a randomised controlled trial with light exposure and physical exercise

Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials

Randomised Intervention Treatment of Angina trial 2