Sentences with phrase «control study design»

We hypothesized that: (a) detection of HR by auscultation or palpation will vary by more than 15 BPM from actual HR; and (b) the inability to accurately determine HR will be associated with errors in management of the neonate during simulated resuscitation.Using a prospective, randomized, controlled study design, 64 subjects participated in three simulated neonatal resuscitation scenarios.

The present study extends previous findings, with incorporation of a randomized controlled study design and use of documented records of behavior rather than typical self - report data which are open to the problem of social desirability.

Not exact matches

O'Laoire S. Abstract DESIGN: Randomized, controlled, double - blind study.

The sample size was small, and the researchers stated that the research findings indicate the need for a randomised control trial (RCT) as RCT's are widely recognised as the best study design.

I tend to side with the anti-agave position, but I would like to see more studies on fructose consumption in humans — well designed tightly controlled metabolic ward studies to make sure that people truly are being compliant with the foods that are being tested..

• In another randomized controlled study of an intervention designed to reduce smoking in expectant fathers, addressing the mothers alone resulted in 5 % of the fathers» quitting, while addressing the father directly resulted in a 15 % quit rate (McBride et al, 2004).

Primarily because we do not find the same benefits in better - designed studies — sibling comparison studies and the PROBIT randomized controlled trial.

To do this it needs to be done «a-priori», ie designed from the outset to be a case controlled study.

But the truth is we lack well - designed, controlled studies to resolve these questions.

A well - designed experimental study isolates those variables that concern us, and contrasts them with a control condition that doesn't include those variables.

This new report on the UNICEF - GAIN partnership to control iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) documents 13 case studies - from Bangladesh to Ukraine - revealing successes and lessons learned in the design and implementation of salt iodization programmes.

Limitations of the study included low response rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

This study was designed to examine the effect of human milk feedings on the incidence of infection and sepsis / meningitis among hospitalized, VLBW infants controlling for potential confounding variables.

One cleverly designed 2006 study found that, after carefully controlling for the mother's IQ — apparently, on average, breastfeeding moms are smarter — there is no evidence that breast milk itself boosts intelligence.

This study used a randomized controlled double - blinded design to determine the functional recovery effects of wearing below - knee compression socks compared with placebo noncompressive below - knee socks.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

This study used data from the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's study used data from the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's diet.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tStudy «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tstudy the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

A new bill that is now in effect for 2017 that mandates a study of safety at grade crossings, the possibility of implementing design changes, the quality of traffic and pedestrian warning signals, and the cost to equip commuter trains with Positive Train Control technology.

One way out of this dilemma, Daviglus notes, is to design a study in which patients suffering from hypertension get treatment, and doctors analyze the results based on how well the patients» blood pressure was controlled.

Everyone is involved in the study of motion control, biomechanics, actuation, and mechanism design.

I first had to design novel equipment to study human motor control and movement, and many of the skills I had acquired during my undergraduate degree proved rather handy.

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

Many scientists question the design of the study; they're not convinced, for instance, that the control zones are representative of the forest as a whole.

«Once we had designed the system, we had to first go into the lab and attach these DNA strands to various proteins we wanted to be able to control,» said study author Rebecca P. Chen, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering (no relation to Wilfred Chen).

«These findings present a conundrum for designing Dravet syndrome treatments that both control seizures and improve social behavior,» noted Nephi Stella, another researcher on the study from the UW departments of pharmacology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

The determination of each efficacy level was also based on the rigor and quantity of published studies on the drug class: to be in Level A, for example, a class of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trials.

Examining more than 100 peer - reviewed studies of predator control, the study found not a single lethal control study that met scientists» gold standard: a randomized, controlled design.

«I think the Cochrane review highlighted the possibilities and benefits of using clonidine for pre-op sedation, [anxiety] and post-op pain, but we still need more well - designed, controlled studies before clonidine can be recommended as the pre-op drug of choice,» Zeltzer said.

The UConn study is the first to use a randomized, controlled design to look at couples» progress in less structured and widely available weight loss programs.

In a study of 74 Android mobile apps designed to promote adolescent online safety, the researchers said that 89 percent of security features on the apps are focused on parental control, while about 11 percent supported teen self - regulation.

Then they ran a series of tests to study how the various control algorithms they had designed affected the ability of the device to absorb energy.

Alistair Miles, lead author from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «The data we have generated are a unique resource for studying how mosquito populations are responding to our current control efforts, and for designing better technologies and strategies for mosquito control in the future.

Nutritional therapists were generally unwilling to test their claims in well - designed controlled studies.

The flu challenge study, which began in September 2013, was conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in the specially designed Clinical Studies Unit, which has distinct isolation and infection control features.

The Soft Robotics Toolkit is an online treasure trove of downloadable, open - source plans, how - to videos, and case studies to assist users in the design, fabrication, modeling, characterization, and control of soft robotic devices.

«We used a highly controlled experimental design, to ensure that any benefits of mindfulness training were not likely explained by people believing it was a better treatment,» said co-author Dr Tom Freeman (Senior fellow of the Society for the Study of Addiction), who was part of the research team while based at UCL.

Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.

This study was a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled trial designed to characterize the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of AVI - 7288 after daily repeat dosing.

In their latest study, the researchers designed and tested the instrument, which could simultaneously perform four RT - PCRs that included two controls and two patient blood samples.

Larger, well - designed studies, such as cluster randomized trials, are ultimately needed to confirm the effectiveness of this strategy,» writes Alice Y. Guh, M.D., M.P.H., and L. Clifford McDonald, M.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.

But in July researchers published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that describes a well - designed, randomized, controlled study of human nutrition — with surprising results.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

There are researchers who create robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid robot, and from there they train the robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.

The University of Florida team designed experiments in which they evaluated 2 - to 7 - week - old basil plants for their susceptibility to downy mildew, and studied the effect of a pre-inoculation application of the fungicide acibenzolar - S - methyl (ASM) for controlling the fungus on maturing basil plants.

The Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) is the first randomised, placebo - controlled trial designed to measure the impact of pregnancy vitamin D supplementation on the bone health of babies using bone density scanning.

Some studies suggested that patients responded well, but they didn't have the controlled, randomized, and blinded design that allows researchers to be sure, says Simon Mardel, a medical officer working on SARS at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.

This pivotal trial is the largest study conducted of renal artery denervation as a treatment for resistant hypertension and the most rigorously designed, including blinding and a sham treatment in the control arm.