Randomised controlled trials (RCT), or randomised clinical trials, are experimental studies where the effect of an intervention is assessed by collecting data before and after an intervention has ...

What is a randomized controlled trial? Randomized controlled trials are the “gold standard” for testing the safety and efficacy of drugs and treatments on the market.

In this randomized, controlled trial involving patients with very high use of health care services, readmission rates were not lower among patients randomly assigned to the Coalition’s program ...

Relevant trial designs that have been developed and utilized include phase II selection designs, randomized phase II designs that include a reference standard-treatment control arm, and phase II/III ...

This large-scale, randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed that propranolol is effective in treating infantile hemangioma, with a favorable risk–benefit profile.

In response to recent Medicare calls for increased evaluation of obesity treatments, an FDA meeting on open questions in the conduct of obesity treatment trials, and high profile editorials in general ...

A randomized control trial, or RCT, is a powerful way to design experiments to identify causal effects of an intervention. In an RCT, participants are randomly selected into treatment and control ...

Randomized clinical food trials are essential to this task, for which data management and quality management are synonymous with best clinical practice.

At the moment, randomised control trials are limited in the level of information they can provide, he said. They don’t generate information about individual patients, the trials are conducted in an ...

Rationale and study design of the KOV-HIPEC-04: A phase III randomized controlled trial in primary stage III and IV ovarian cancer after interval cytoreductive surgery (FOCUS).

The LEADERS trial enrolled 1,707 patients in 10 European hospitals between November 2006 and May 2007, while RESOLUTE-III enrolled 2,292 patients at 19 European hospitals between May and October 2008.