Research Design - Standards
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007.

30 Oct 2009 The annual number of published clinical trials in acute postoperative pain in adults has changed little in 15 yr and, as a fraction of all clinical trials published in the six highest impact journals in anesthesiology, has actually decreased from ... Read more...

Reporting of safety results in published reports of randomized controlled trials.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Reports of clinical trials usually emphasize efficacy results, especially when results are statistically significant. Poor safety reporting can lead to misinterpretation and inadequate conclusions about the interventions assessed. Our ... Read more...

Clinical trials design lessons from the CATIE study.

29 Sep 2009 The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to compare the effectiveness of drugs for schizophrenia. The focus here is not on its conclusions but on the knotty ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Research Design - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dropouts and missing data in psychiatric clinical trials. 30 Oct 2009
• Increase in quality, but not quantity, of clinical trials in acute pain: 1992 versus 2007. 30 Oct 2009
• Reporting of safety results in published reports of randomized controlled trials. 24 Oct 2009
• Adverse events in randomized trials: neglected, restricted, distorted, and silenced. 24 Oct 2009
• Redundant data in the meta-analysis on Helicobacter pylori eradication. 4 Oct 2009
• Clinical trials design lessons from the CATIE study. 29 Sep 2009
• How can the specialty establish a standard of care? 29 Sep 2009
• Antidepressant use and preterm birth. 29 Sep 2009
• Combination treatment with quetiapine in bipolar disorder patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Maintenance treatment for patients with bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Are medical journals getting better--or worse? 17 Sep 2009
• Quality of reporting in randomized trials published in high-quality surgical journals. 9 Sep 2009
• Editor's choice. 30 Aug 2009
• Exploring the clinical implications of the international CS reference data for children and adolescents (Meyer, Erdberg, & Shaffer, 2007). 30 Aug 2009
• Efficient--and guilt-free--reading of the medical literature. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving the quality of reporting of research studies. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical trials and methodological problems in prion diseases. 30 Aug 2009
• A review of dissociative disorders treatment studies. 30 Aug 2009
• Design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials in disease due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 30 Aug 2009
• Influence of socioeconomic status on delusional-like experiences in adults. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Research Design'

Definition: A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.

Descriptor UI: D012107

Alternative terms: Research Design; Design, Research; Designs, Research; Research Designs; Research Proposal; Proposal, Research; Proposals, Research; Research Proposals; Scoring Methods; Method, Scoring; Methods, Scoring; Scoring Method; Matched Groups; Group, Matched; Groups, Matched; Matched Group; Error Sources; Error Source; Source, Error; Sources, Error; Data Quality; Data Qualities; Qualities, Data; Quality, Data; Data Reporting; Reporting, Data; Experimental Design; Designs, Experimental; Experimental Designs; Design, Experimental; Problem Formulation; Formulation, Problem; Formulations, Problem; Problem Formulations; Data Adjustment; Data Adjustments;

Related Mesh Headings: Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees;

Allowable Qualifiers: legislation & jurisprudence; statistics & numerical data; standards; trends;

Tree Number: E05.581.500; H01.770.644.728;

History Note: 73