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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"randomised trial"”.
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A prospective randomised trial comparing plastic and uncovered self-expanding metal stents for palliation of symptomatic jaundice in patients with malignant distal biliary obstruction
… obstruction were enrolled in a prospective randomised study. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either an uncovered SEMS or a plastic stent deployed through the biliary stricture during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Results: Patient survival time in the two groups …
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The effect of a training and clinical facilitation programme for registered midwives in primary maternity settings with respect to managing labour: a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
… Methods: Research design : Pragmatic cluster randomised trial with 12 month follow-up. Setting and participants : Seventeen clusters stratified by geo-political region and size of service; 1020 labour records (60 per cluster / site; systematic random sample); and 154 registered midwives …
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Some investigations to compare the durability and performance of mechanical and porcine heart valve prostheses
… in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were entered into a randomised trial and received either a mechanical (Bjork-Shiley), or porcine heterograft (Hancock or Carpentier-Edwards) prosthesis. Starting in 1977 in the United States the Veterans Administration carried out a similar randomised trial on 575 …
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Opioid use, dependence and complications following musculoskeletal trauma and surgery
… including five cohort studies and a single randomised trial. Main findings 1) Amongst an end-stage osteoarthritis population waitlisted for total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA; TKA) at NSW public hospitals, opioid use was common (25%) on entry to the waitlist and was associated with numerous …
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Evaluating breastfeeding support : a randomised controlled trial of support from breastfeeding counsellors
… the commonest reason for stopping. Study two, a randomised trial of support from breastfeeding counsellors, recruited 720 women. At four months, 46.1% (143/310) intervention and 42.3% (131/310) control women breastfed (Chi\(^2\)=0.942, P=0.33); 73.9% (229/310) vs 79.4% (246/310) gave bottle feeds …
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Induced hypothermia after cardiac arrest
… cardiac arrest. After the publication of two trials indicating benefit of induced hypothermia, we developed a registry to assess outcome, possible adverse events and conduct of induced hypothermia when this intervention was implemented in a clinical population of cardiac arrest patients. …
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Classroom intervention to change peers' attitudes towards children who stutter: a pilot study six months post-intervention
… pilot study will inform the feasibility of a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) through the following aims: 1. To analyse selected procedural aspects including recruitment, participation and re tention rates and questionnaire-questionnaire completion trends. 2. To observe treatment and cluster …
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‘A loose nerve’: Culture(s), Time and Governmentality in the biomedical treatment of Premature Ejaculation in Bangladeshi Muslim men
… of semi-structured responses gained during a randomised trial comparing two biomedical interventions followed by a modified behavioural therapy. Foucault’s concept of governmentality was the theoretical foundation of the research. Results: three themes were dominant in explaining PE both in …
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Effectiveness of the classroom communication resource in changing primary school learners' attitudes towards children who stutter after one month: A feasibility study
… and the feasibility for a larger scale cluster randomised trial (CRT) in future. Peer attitudes were determined via a Likert scale questionnaire, the Stuttering Resource Outcomes Measure (SROM), completed by primary school learners. Aim one was to establish if the SROM was a valid and reliable …
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Co-producing healthcare guidance for children and young people with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) including the exploration and design of a home-based complex intervention
… benefits of the intervention in a feasibility randomised trial involving six children. Findings demonstrated the intervention was both feasible and acceptable, with preliminary evidence of improved coordination, respiratory health, and overall well-being. <br/>Together, these four WPs offer the …
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Optimisation of neonatal ventilation
… the efficacy of PSV to assist control (ACV) in a randomised trial. <br/>• To perform in vitro and in vivo assessments of proportional assist ventilation (PAV). <br/>• The physiological outcome measures were the transdiaphragmatic pressure time product (PTPdi), respiratory muscle strength, …
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Efficacy of a peer-led exercise and education programme combined with a therapeutic relationship to manage pain in rural amaXhosa women living with HIV/AIDS compared to a therapeutic relationship alone
… amaXhosa women LWHA. Method: A single-blind randomised trial was conducted using a sample of convenience. Interviewer administered questionnaires and functional tests at Baseline and at Weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24 were collected for the PL and TR intervention groups. Regression analysis determined …
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Effects of silver sulfadiazine and actilite honey on bacterial wound colonisation and wound healing in children under twelve years with partial superficial burn wounds at University Adult Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
… of ≤ 20 per cent TBSA. This two-arm open label randomised trial was done at UTH over a period of seven months (July 2017-January, 2018). Children under twelve years with ≤ 20% partial superficial burn wounds were recruited. They were then randomly allocated to either honey or SSD group. …
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Effects of silver sulfadiazine and actilite honey on bacterial wound colonisation and wound healing in children under twelve years with partial superficial burn wounds at University Adult Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
… of ≤ 20 per cent TBSA. This two-arm open label randomised trial was done at UTH over a period of seven months (July 2017-January, 2018). Children under twelve years with ≤ 20% partial superficial burn wounds were recruited. They were then randomly allocated to either honey or SSD group. …
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Functional Imagery Training for Increasing Employee Psychological Resilience
… to a waitlist control group in a pre-registered randomised trial to assess impact on employee resilience, quality of life, wellbeing, life satisfaction, and work-based outcomes. FIT encourages the development of personalised resilience goals (i.e. behaviours which contribute to resilience; …
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Studies of Loop Ileostomy Morbidity and the Potential Benefits of Chyme Reinfusion
… development and study protocol for a larger trial. A randomised controlled trial using this device assessed its impact on clinical outcomes prior to and following loop ileostomy reversal. A histology sub-study investigated chyme reinfusion’s impact on terminal ileal and rectal inflammation. A …
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Childhood Outcomes after Dextrose Gel for Treating and Preventing Low Glucose Levels in Babies
… Oral Dextrose (hPOD) multicentre, double-blinded randomised trial to assess the effects of prophylactic oral dextrose gel compared with placebo gel on neurocognitive, growth and health outcomes at 2 years’ corrected age and tested the robustness of these findings. We conducted an exploratory …
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Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Infant Growth and Nutrition
… two-fold, but there is currently no clinical trial evidence that detecting and treating milder forms of GDM has clinical benefit. Aim: To assess the effect of detection and treatment of GDM using the lower IADPSG criteria and higher current NZ criteria on infant growth and nutrition in the …
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Impact of Unintended pregnancy on HIV viral load outcomes among postpartum women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: clues from postpartum adherence clubs for antiretroviral therapy trial
… Town, South Africa. Methods: Data are from a randomised trial that compared different ART delivery modalities for postpartum women aged at least 18 years who had initiated ART during their most recent pregnancy, had a VL<400 copies/ml in the previous three months, and had no comorbidities …
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Novel methods within a randomised controlled trial in respiratory disease
Introduction:<br/>A well designed randomised controlled trial is the best-known process to assess if a healthcare intervention works. The number of clinical trials registered and open for recruitment is increasing every year, through the global cumulative effort of many researchers and the large …
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