Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Optimized dermatologist's report and hierarchical multi-step invention. Randomized evaluation of the cornerstones of preventive occupational dermatology]

30 Aug 2009 Parallel to the introduction of the optimized dermatologist's report in 2006, a hierarchical multi-step intervention approach to occupational dermatitis (OD) was launched within the statutory accident insurance bodies. It is aimed at ensuring that ... Read more...

[Randomized clinical trials in trauma surgery: decision-making in an area of conflict between eminence and evidence]

30 Jul 2009 Well-designed, prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trials (RCTs) define the gold standard of evidence-based medicine. The results of such trials represent the most solid rationale for therapeutic recommendations in the S3 guideline of ... Read more...

Multicentre randomised controlled trials in obstetrics and gynaecology: an analysis of trends over three decades.

10 May 2009 To assess the trend in multicentre randomised controlled trials (RCTs), a database of 670 RCTs was assembled from four generic obstetric and gynaecological journals (Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, British Journal of Obstetrics & ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A (prime) boost for HIV vaccine research? Oct 2009
• Bleak prospects for primary progressive multiple sclerosis therapy: downs and downs, but a glimmer of hope. 29 Sep 2009
• [Occupational dermatology 2009. Many new options for the practice] 30 Aug 2009
• [Optimized dermatologist's report and hierarchical multi-step invention. Randomized evaluation of the cornerstones of preventive occupational dermatology] 30 Aug 2009
• [Randomized clinical trials in trauma surgery: decision-making in an area of conflict between eminence and evidence] 30 Jul 2009
• Identifying needs and opportunities for advancing translational research in cardiovascular disease. 3 Jun 2009
• Randomized controlled trials and case reports: two sides of the same coin? 20 May 2009
• Multicentre randomised controlled trials in obstetrics and gynaecology: an analysis of trends over three decades. 10 May 2009
• Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery and acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis of randomized and observational studies. 3 May 2009
• The contribution of RCTs to quality management and their feasibility in practice. 29 Apr 2009
• Imaging technology and practice assessments: what next? 29 Apr 2009
• Desvenlafaxine: a new antidepressant or just another one? 30 Mar 2009
• Treatment strategies for pelvic inflammatory disease. 30 Mar 2009
• Osseous metastases: drugs that enhance bone integrity and prevent adverse skeletal events. 30 Mar 2009
• Highlights of the Pananemia National Meeting of the Italian Southern Oncological Group (GOIM): pharmacological and molecular treatment of cancer-induced anemia. Sorrento, Italy, 19-20 December 2008. 30 Mar 2009
• Gynaecological surgery from art and craft to science? 30 Mar 2009
• Right ventricular septal pacing--can we see the wood for the trees? 30 Mar 2009
• Tocilizumab. 30 Mar 2009
• Randomised controlled trials: on the way out? 4 Mar 2009
• Re: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of repeated IV antibiotic therapy for Lyme encephalopathy. Prolonged Lyme disease treatment: enough is enough. 25 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic'

Definition: Clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

Descriptor UI: D016032

Alternative terms: Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Controlled Clinical Trials, Randomized; Clinical Trials, Randomized; Trials, Randomized Clinical;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E05.318.760.535.365.500; E05.337.250.365.500; N05.715.360.775.235.387.500; N06.850.520.450.535.365.500;

History Note: 2008(1990)

Technical Notes: for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of randomized controlled trials; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL is used for reports of a specific randomized trial