A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial; RCT) is a form of scientific experiment used to control factors not under direct experimental...

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but provide less evidence for causal inference than a randomized controlled trial. A case–control study is often used to produce an odds ratio. Some statistical...

randomised controlled trials are also known as cluster-randomised trials, group-randomised trials, and place-randomized trials. Cluster-randomised controlled trials...

experimental and a control intervention are given to a single patient is an N of 1 randomized controlled trial. Some N of 1 trials involve randomized assignment...

from meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Systematic reviews of completed, high-quality randomized controlled trials – such as those published...

versus a control group is outside the control of the investigator. This is in contrast with experiments, such as randomized controlled trials, where each...

Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); a concentrated source for bibliographic reports of randomized controlled trials ClinicalTrials.eu, European...

The Heart Protection Study was a randomized controlled trial run by the Clinical Trial Service Unit, and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC)...

2015, the efficacy of TENS for phantom limb pain is unknown; no randomized controlled trials have been performed. A few studies have shown objective evidence...

mellitus. Initial results from a randomized controlled trial indicate that it reduced weight and improved diabetic control. The most commonly reported adverse...

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While the possibility of blinded trials on acupuncture is controversial, a 2003 review of 47 randomized controlled trials found no fewer than four methods...

traditional randomized controlled trial (the standard in epidemiology for establishing causality). These authors also coined the term Mendelian randomization. One...

medicine an intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the results of a randomized controlled trial is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment...

This is why randomized controlled trials are vital in clinical research, especially ones that can be double-blinded and placebo-controlled. Mathematically...

medicine. Randomized, controlled crossover experiments are especially important in health care. In a randomized clinical trial, the subjects are randomly assigned...

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religious belief and practices have gained prominence. Numerous randomized controlled trials have explored the correlation of CBT within diverse religious...

treatment in irritable bowel syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial". Trials. 18 (1): 234. doi:10.1186/s13063-017-1964-x. ISSN 1745-6215...

recommend MSM as a trial drug for treating breast cancers because of its multi-targeting mechanism. A small 2021 Randomized Controlled Trial on cardiometabolic...

that the trials for any K-factor randomized block design are simply the cell indices of a k dimensional matrix. The model for a randomized block design...

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interpreting the outcomes differently. Randomized controlled trial: A method where the study population is divided randomly in order to mitigate the chances...

Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) - a randomized controlled trial of intensive BP control AIM-HIGH (trial) - a randomized controlled trial of niacin for increasing...

efficacy and obesity reduction. In a phase III double-blind, randomized, controlled trial supported by Eli Lilly, nondiabetic adults with a body mass index...

has been effective and safe in a randomized, controlled trial for six months. Another randomized, controlled trial found no difference between sorbitol...

(Jan 2012). "The VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL): rationale and design of a large randomized controlled trial of vitamin D and marine omega-3 fatty...

large multicentre randomized controlled trials from Africa and Asia. A subsequent systematic review of seven randomized controlled trials found this improvement...

unblinding was infrequently and incompletely reported in 300 randomized clinical trial publications". Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 67 (10): 1059–1069...