Based on the analysis of data from eight of the included trials, 47 %
of patients in the control groups were given a prescription, compared with 29 % in the groups where the GPs or patients had received training or information.
By 90 days, 26 percent
of the patients in the control group had died and 16 percent had devastating disability.
Favourable outcomes, ranging from moderate disability to good recovery, occurred in only a quarter of the patients in the hypothermia group compared with more than a third
of patients in the control group.
Bivalirudin was associated with a significantly lower rate of death, which occurred in 1.7 percent of patients receiving bivalirudin and 2.3 percent
of patients in the control group.
Only 12 percent
of patients in the control group achieved that level of relief.
Not exact matches
A study
of the
patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched
control group of other
patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference
in the general improvement and discharge rate
of those visited.
Christine Hanson Haas MS LDN CNS, licensed nutritionist and the owner
of Washington Nutrition
Group, a chain
of medical nutrition therapy and weight loss clinics
in the Washington DC Metro Area has always recommended nutrition bars and shakes high
in protein to her
patients for convenience, blood sugar
control, optimal metabolism and satiety.
Women
in the
patient -
controlled group did report slightly higher pain scores when they got to the pushing part
of the delivery, but also reported being satisfied with their pain relief overall.
The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one
of her
patients who DID N'T intend to birth
in the water and she needed people birthing out
of the tub for a
control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.
A study
of mental functioning
in alcoholic
patients found that they performed less well than a
control group in choosing the correct punchline for a joke.
Through their analysis the researchers detected damaged proteins
in characteristic patterns
in the samples
of those
patients with early and advanced OA and RA, but were found at markedly lower levels
in the samples
of those
in the
control group — providing the researchers with the identifiable biomarkers necessary for early detection and diagnosis.
The idea to specifically study this
group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published
in the New England Journal
of Medicine last year, which found that among
patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent
of their cancer cells showed the longest survival and disease
control.
The researchers tested OCA
in three
groups of patients: 10 with primary BAD, where the intestine is otherwise healthy; 10 with secondary BAD, where malabsorption can occur as a result
of another disease such as Crohn's; and eight with other causes
of chronic diarrhea, who served as a
control group.
In trials involving two
groups of diabetic
patients, adults and adolescents, the bionic pancreas provided tighter
control of blood glucose than standard measures such as insulin pumps and blood - sugar monitors.
The analysis revealed that, compared to children
in the
control group, bipolar
patients and unaffected offspring
of bipolar parents had genetic alterations that can influence the response to stress.
Patients newly diagnosed with primary SjS (
in people with no other rheumatic disease) were around 11 times more likely to have had a prior infection with NTM than a matched
group of controls.
In contrast 85 %
of the arthritis
patients and 100 %
of the
control group could correctly use an inhaler called a Turbohaler, which has three steps; unscrewing a cap, twisting a dial and replacing the cap.
When, for example, subjects were asked 20 times
in succession to estimate the duration for which a square — displayed for exactly one second
in each case — appeared on the screen, the estimates given by
patients with schizophrenia exhibited a much higher level
of variability than those
of the
control group.
Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds
of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard
in medical research,
in which
patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case -
control studies, which compare
patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk
of contracting a disease by studying a
group of people with similar demographics.
Practitioners
in the
control group received baseline risk assessment
of their
patients, but no summary reports.
After his six - month trial ended, however, several
patients in the treatment
group became psychotic, raising the question
of whether the treatment was preventing schizophrenia or simply
controlling its symptoms.
CU Boulder researchers used functional MRI scans (fMRI) to study brain activity
in a
group of 37 fibromyalgia
patients and 35
control patients as they were exposed to a variety
of non-painful visual, auditory and tactile cues as well as painful pressure.
But they found no evidence
of infection
in a
control group of patients.
The researchers found a continuum
of trauma - related symptom severity across the
groups, with highest scores
in patients with DID, followed by
patients with PTSD, and the lowest scores for healthy
controls.
Osteoarthritis
patients who received a steroid injection
in the hip had a significantly greater incidence
of bone death and collapse compared with
control groups, according to new research presented today at the annual meeting
of the Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA).
The radiologists reported new osteonecrosis
in 22 - 24 percent
of hip injection
patients, compared to 5 - 9 percent
in the hip
control group and 5 percent
in the shoulder injection
control group.
The
control groups consisted
of 102
patients who had hip X-rays without steroid / anesthetic injection and 44
patients who underwent imaging and a steroid / anesthetic injection
in the shoulder.
In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief
of the Division
of Cancer Prevention and
Control of the at Mount Sinai
in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
in New York, addressed whether the increased risk
of cancer
in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publi
in this
group of heart failure
patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general public.
«This is a treatment that will help
control seizures
in a very specific
group of patients who are not otherwise candidates for surgery.
PRIME 2 is an international, phase III, randomized,
controlled trial that set out to address the question
of whether whole - breast radiotherapy can be omitted
in carefully defined
groups of older
patients receiving appropriate therapy.
The absolute risks
of developing neuropathy were 64 per 100,000 person - years
in patients with celiac disease and 15 per 100,000 person - years
in the
control group.
After withdrawal
of the interventions, the future development
of diabetes remained less
in people who changed their lifestyle and / or took medications compared with the
control group of prediabetic
patients who did not have interventions.
For example, 45 percent
of the
patients treated with the clot removal procedure achieved functional independence compared to 17 percent
in the
control group.
In the methadone group, patients required a median of 5 mg of hydromorphone to treat acute pain on the first day after surgery, compared to 10 mg in the control grou
In the methadone
group,
patients required a median
of 5 mg
of hydromorphone to treat acute pain on the first day after surgery, compared to 10 mg
in the control grou
in the
control group.
On the second day,
patients in the methadone
group required less than 1 mg
of hydromorphone, compared to 3 mg
in the
control group.
Hypertension is the most important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and while it is especially common
in the elderly and
in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), these are the least studied
groups in randomized
controlled trials examining the health effects
of lowering blood pressure.
The findings, published
in the journal Brain, are based on studies
of around 60 Alzheimer's
patients at Skåne University Hospital and a
control group consisting
of 30 people with no cognitive impairment.
Moritz and his colleagues compared the behaviour
of 60
patients suffering from OCD with 110 people with depression and 1050 adults
in a
control group.
The researchers found that during stair ascent the DPN
group showed significantly higher maximum CoM - CoP separation
of 13 cm, compared to 10 cm for both the diabetes
patients without DPN and the
control group; and also significantly increased variation
in CoM - CoP separation: 7 cm for the DPN
group, 5 cm for the diabetes only
group, and 6 cm for the
control group.
As reported last year
in Anesthesia & Analgesia, about 14 percent
of patients in the intervention
group were confirmed as quitting smoking before surgery, compared to just four percent
of the
control group.
The DPN
group also saw significantly increased variation
in CoM - CoP separation
of mean 8 cm versus 7 cm for both the diabetes
patients without DPN and
control group.
After a year, significantly fewer myelin - treated
patients had major attacks
of multiple sclerosis (6 out
of 15) than
in the
control group (l2 out
of 15).
Perera and Weinstein detected the benzo [a] pyrene adduct
in some
of the cancer
patients but not
in the
control group.
The study revealed that 14 percent
of patients with oropharyngeal cancers tested positive for HCV antibodies, compared to just 6.5 percent
in the
control group.
Since the outbreak exploded
in August, researchers have vigorously debated how to set up Ebola drug and vaccine studies, with some advocating randomized
controlled studies,
in which one
group of patients doesn't receive the drug, as the quickest way to get results.
As part
of the Cannabis for the Management
of Pain: Assessment
of Safety Study (COMPASS), that started
in 2004, the researchers followed 215 adult
patients, with chronic non-cancer pain, who used medical cannabis, and compared them to a
control group of 216 chronic pain sufferers who were not cannabis users.
Together with Liberian officials, Lane is poised to launch a randomized study
of an antibody cocktail called ZMapp; that study does include a
control group in which
patients will receive standard care but not the drug.
Most
of these men, who all had terminal prostate cancer with limited treatment options, had disease
control lasting much longer than expected
in this
group of patients.
The weight loss and adverse events
of 157
patients who received the active Maestro device (the experimental
group) were compared to 76
patients in the
control group who received a Maestro electrical pulse generator that was not activated.
Professor Sahakian and colleagues found that the
patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location
of different patterns
in the CANTAB PAL test relative to the
control group.