Following the frequent suspicions regarding the safety of cholesterol-lowering drugs in the pre-statin era,1 statins have been a recurrent object of various concerns and alarming news. For example, ...
Objective To perform a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis on the effects of all relevant exercise training modes on resting blood pressure to establish optimal antihypertensive exercise ...
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) remains a significant health concern for the US Military Health System and a threat to warfighter readiness. Although most service members (SMs) recover following an ...
Fiona Fidler receives funding from the Australian Research Council and IARPA. Randomised controlled trials are the gold standard in medical research. Researchers divide participants into two groups ...
Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of a new multicomponent, exercise-based injury prevention programme in football players 13–19 years old. Methods Two-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial with ...
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Research Associate at the Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC) and Visiting Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS), ...
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 ...