Sentences with phrase «double blind study design»

This is called double blind study design.

Not exact matches

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

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 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.

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.

A double - blind study design was used so that neither the mothers nor the researchers knew which spray was administered.

The investigators studied the effects of ∆ 9 - THC on electrical brain activity in 24 human subjects who participated in a three - day study during which they received two doses of intravenous ∆ 9 - THC or placebo in a double - blind, randomized, cross-over, and counterbalanced design.

Double - blinded studies are designed to prevent bias when conducting the trial or analyzing the results.

In a randomized, double - blind, sham - controlled, multi-center study with a parallel design, Shirota et al (2013) examined the effectiveness and stimulation frequency dependence of rTMS over the supplementary motor area (SMA) in PD.

In this double - blind study design, each baby received four doses of vaccine or placebo.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

A double - blind, placebo - controlled phase III study has been designed to include 660 patients with treatment - naive, stage III / IV melanoma with injectable lesions.

• KSM - 66 Ashwagandha clinical studies follow gold standards of substantiation: randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled designs.

A problem with previous work in this area is the difficulty designing a double - blind study of dehydration (1).

A randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled study (the best study design around), published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, showed that soy intake significantly improved insulin resistance, triglycerides, LDL and cholesterol.

A double - blind study to be carried out at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa has been designed to show that a «balanced diet containing appropriate protein and other ingredients can help reduce the risk of poor outcomes and progression of disease in AIDS patients.»

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 30 subjects with type 2 diabetes were included in this randomized, controlled, double - blinded, parallel group study.

The study was well designed; it was a double blind, placebo controlled trial on humans, which is the gold standard of scientific research.

While the research is not always of the gold - standard variety — double - blind, placebo - controlled trials that are published in veterinary journals only after passing muster with a team of independent scientific experts who review the trials for study design and overall quality — preliminary studies do exist, and some dog food manufacturers have gone ahead and tested products on their own.

The 11 - step protocol used by technicians follows; however, steps 3,10, and 11 were omitted in order to maintain the double - blind study design.

Double - blind placebo - controlled study of nortriptyline in depressed adolescents using a «fixed plasma level» design.