Sentences with phrase «large difference to the outcome»

Clearly, in some cases, this factor could make a large difference to the outcome.

Not exact matches

Its large sample size provided the power to detect differences in rare adverse outcomes.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

The primary outcome with the largest difference in this sensitivity analysis was preterm birth, where an analysis restricted to trials with lower risk of bias suggested a larger treatment effect: RR 0.64, (95 % CI 0.51 to 0.81) compared with RR 0.77, (95 % CI 0.62 to 0.94) in the overall analysis.

The study's primary limitation is that the sample was not large enough to detect differences in the components of the primary endpoint, only a composite of these outcomes.

Of the factors examined that combine to create the County Health Rankings, the counties ranked lowest for poverty, measured as the number of children below the poverty line, had twice the relative risk of asthma as an outcome from PM2.5 exposure than those counties ranked highest (the largest difference).

Additionally, within each of the 7 specific categories of clinical research (October 2002 council only), there were no significant differences in review outcomes for applications reviewed by study sections reviewing 1 % to 25 % clinical applications compared with outcomes in study sections reviewing larger percentages of clinical applications.

Similar to the animal studies, large variations among the exposure protocols, measured outcomes, and subject susceptibilities likely explain much of the differences among findings and must be considered when interpreting the results.

In a large meta - analysis published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers failed to find the dramatic differences in health outcomes you may expect between the two fat groups.

Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the average outcome differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or differences across other measures of socioeconomic status.

The marginal cost of choosing one textbook over another is generally close to zero (because all textbooks cost about the same amount [xiv]-RRB-, and several recent studies have documented meaningfully large differences in student outcomes.

Yet, when I and a group of researchers from Harvard, MIT, Duke and the University of Michigan subsequently tracked down the admission lottery winners, and compared their outcomes to the lottery losers, we found large differences in achievement.

The difference between student outcomes for online and face - to - face classes... was larger in those studies contrasting conditions that blended elements of online and face - to - face instruction with conditions taught entirely face - to - face.

In fact, levels are not as important as skills here; having a collection of high level demons is totally useless if they don't have the correct abilities to defeat specific enemies, because skills like paralysis can make a large difference in the outcome of a battle.

In some cases, the stat differences alone can determine the outcome of a match due to its interesting metagame effects while in other matches it might become irrelevant if player skill difference is large enough.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.