Sentences with phrase «outcome assessors»

For outcome assessors, outcomes were determined by telephone survey at 4 weeks postpartum by interviewers blinded to group assignment.

We will address the issue of whether or not outcome assessors were kept blind to treatment condition.

There was an attempt to mask / blind outcome assessors to randomisation group, although it is possible women would have revealed whether or not they received support.

Studies were generally small (mean number of patients = 35) and of variable methodological quality, with only five reporting blinding of outcome assessors to treatment allocation, and in some cases with high loss to follow - up.

Methodological rigour, including concealment of random allocation, blinded outcome assessors, regular monitoring and prospective trial registration and publication, should limit risk of bias.

Randomised -LCB- allocation concealed * -RCB- †, blinded (outcome assessors) *, controlled trial with follow up at 3 months.

In only one was an attempt made to measure and adjust for the lack of blindness of outcome assessors that often occurs in studies of psychosocial treatments.

Outcome assessors were not fully blind to treatment allocation, but there was ongoing supervision to standardise assessment.

Study quality was assessed for allocation concealment, blinding of outcome assessors, reporting of clinically important outcomes, and follow up.

DupuytrEn Treatment EffeCtiveness Trial (DETECT): a protocol for prospective, randomised, controlled, outcome assessor - blinded, three - armed parallel 1:1:1, multicentre trial comparing the effectiveness and cost of collagenase clostridium histolyticum, percutaneous needle fasciotomy and limited fasciectomy as short - term and long - term treatment strategies in Dupuytren's contracture

Inevitably, blinding of participants or personnel was impossible for this intervention; likewise, blinding of outcome assessors (who were most often the parents who had delivered the intervention) was impossible.