When a new treatment becomes available for a particular health condition, such as a new medication to treat a disease, it's tested to see whether it's effective for its intended purpose. It's also ...
Would you volunteer to become vegetarian for the next three decades for the sake of science? What if you were asked to run at least 50 kilometres per week, or live through a natural disaster? Granted, ...
Adherence to adjuvant tamoxifen therapy is suboptimal, and acceptance of tamoxifen for primary prevention is poor. Published results indicate effect of low-dose tamoxifen therapy. Using questionnaire ...
Randomised phase 3 trial of enzalutamide in first line androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic prostate cancer: the ANZUP ENZAMET Trial (ANZUP 1304). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ...
It is still common to see statistical testing of baseline data of clinical trials in an attempt to prove that two or more groups to whom patients have been randomised are comparable. For example, ...
A cluster randomised trial (CRT) is a randomised controlled trial in which pre-existing groups, called clusters, of individuals are randomly allocated to treatment arms. For example, clusters may be ...
The video below shows how a randomised trial works. It is about 2 minutes long. Randomised trials have at least 2 different treatment groups. The people taking part are put into one of the groups at ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results