Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Weight patterns in children with higher risk ALL: A report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG) for CCG 1961.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: This retrospective analysis defined and described patterns and predictors of weight change during treatment in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) with high-risk features who received treatment on Children's Cancer Group ... Read more...

Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in people with diabetes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

4 Nov 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the benefits and harms of low dose aspirin in people with diabetes and no cardiovascular disease. DESIGN: Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. DATA SOURCES: Medline (1966-November 2008), the Cochrane central register ... Read more...

The sympathetic nervous system in heart failure physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical implications.

Nov 2009 Heart failure is a syndrome characterized initially by left ventricular dysfunction that triggers countermeasures aimed to restore cardiac output. These responses are compensatory at first but eventually become part of the disease process itself ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Weight patterns in children with higher risk ALL: A report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG) for CCG 1961. 13 Dec 2009
• Aprepitant for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in adolescents. 13 Dec 2009
• Heroin assisted treatment. 4 Nov 2009
• Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in people with diabetes: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. 4 Nov 2009
• Endoscopic versus open vein-graft harvesting. 3 Nov 2009
• Donepezil treatment of patients with MCI: a 48-week randomized, placebo- controlled trial. Nov 2009
• Assessing niacin as an atherosclerosis therapeutic agent valuable insights provided by high-resolution vascular magnetic resonance imaging. Nov 2009
• The sympathetic nervous system in heart failure physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical implications. Nov 2009
• Benefit of carotid endarterectomy for symptomatic and asymptomatic severe carotid artery stenosis: a Markov model based on data from randomized controlled trials. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Oct 2009
• Is there any prospective, randomized study to confirm significantly better angiographic radial artery conduit patency compared with saphenous vein graft patency? 30 Oct 2009
• Choice of conduit for the right coronary system: 8-year analysis of Radial Artery Patency and Clinical Outcomes trial. 30 Oct 2009
• Devices and drugs for stroke: why do regulations differ? 30 Oct 2009
• Perioperative strokes and beta-blockade. 30 Oct 2009
• Dropouts and missing data in psychiatric clinical trials. 30 Oct 2009
• Male circumcision and risk of HIV infection in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 30 Oct 2009
• Controlling hepatitis C with immunotherapy. 30 Oct 2009
• Are normal echocardiographic values obtained by transthoracic echocardiography in awake patients suitable for evaluation of cardiac function in anesthetized and mechanically ventilated patients? 30 Oct 2009
• Abuse of antibiotic prophylaxis in third molar surgeries. 30 Oct 2009
• Periprostatic nerve block (PNB) alone vs PNB combined with an anaesthetic-myorelaxant agent cream for prostate biopsy: a prospective, randomized double-arm study. 30 Oct 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