Sentences with phrase «randomized study called»

Ratio - based transfusion has been studied in trauma patients, most recently in a landmark, multicenter randomized study called the PROPRR trial.

Not exact matches

The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

Julia Lewis, MD (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) and her colleagues in the Collaborative Study Group conducted a 441 - patient randomized clinical trial to test the potential of a compound called ferric citrate to bind phosphorus, increase iron stores, and reduce the usage of IV iron and ESAs.

The study analyzed data from three randomized, controlled clinical trials conducted between 2001 and 2015 called INFANT, PEAK and MIST that included 736 children.

In 1998, Congress mandated an evaluation of Head Start, called the Head Start Impact Study, a randomized trial of more than 4,000 children, ages 3 and 4, newly entering the Head Start program.

A second study, which was another joint effort by UW and UCSF, randomized more than 600 people across the United States assessed as moderately or mildly depressed to one of three interventions: Akili's Project: EVO; iPST, an app deployment of problem - solving therapy; or a placebo control (an app called Health Tips, which offered healthy suggestions).

The first study enrolled older adults diagnosed with late - life depression into a treatment trial where they were randomized to receive either a mobile, tablet - based treatment technology developed by Akili Interactive Labs called Project: EVO or an in - person therapy technique known as problem - solving therapy (PST).

Called the high - dimensional propensity score algorithm (hd - PS), it is a tool for improving not randomized clinical trials but broader observational studies, in which researchers watch a large pool of participants and look for correlations — like the fact that wine drinkers live longer than other drinkers.

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.

The study, called the Minimizing Adverse Hemorrhagic Events by Transradial Access Site and Systemic Implementation of AngioX Program (MATRIX), randomized more than 7,200 patients undergoing angioplasty at 78 hospitals in four European countries to bivalirudin or standard coagulation therapy.

To test the procedure, Healey initiated a randomized trial, called the «Shockless IMPLant Evaluation (SIMPLE)» study.

In the $ 1.47 million, four - year grant called â $ œBiomarkers of Ischemic Outcomes in Intracranial Stenosisâ $ (BIOSIS), Emory researchers are analyzing blood samples from 451 patients from around the country who were enrolled in a study known as SAMMPRIS (Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent stroke in Intracranial Stenosis), the first randomized, multicenter clinical trial designed to test whether stenting intracranial arteries would prevent recurrent stroke.

The drug, a monoclonal antibody called ipilimumab, is the first treatment of any kind ever shown in a large, randomized phase III clinical study (study MDX010 - 20) to improve overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who no longer respond to standard therapy.

A randomized study of high fibre intake failed to demonstrate any reduction in precancerous lesions called adenomas.

Many of the studies are so - called randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of scientific experimentation in humans.

The studies were called randomized controlled trials, which are considered the «gold standard» in research «The scientific term for it is «silly,»» ays Michael Holick, a professor of medicine at Boston University, told the paper.

Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to cause weight gain, citing a randomized, double - blind European study by Rabin and others, which found that drinking calorically sweetened beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week study than did drinking diet drinks.8 Since the beverages in this study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a second randomized controlled study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened beverages.

In a small, randomized, controlled study, one of the most reliable types of studies, a popular energy drink was linked with increases in blood pressure and stress hormones called catecholamines in young, healthy adults.

A randomized study was designed involving 16 observers, under supervision of two graduate students, who carefully coded student behavior for several weeks in two sets of classes (classes that received parent calls from teachers, and those that did not).

For older education researchers, all calls to conduct formal experiments probably have a «déjà vu» quality, reminding them of a battle they thought they had won long ago — the battle against a «positivist» view of science that privileges the randomized experiment and its related research and development model whose origins lie in agriculture, health, public health, marketing, or even studies of the military.

These studies are called randomized field trials and are increasingly recognized by social scientists as the most definitive in establishing causality, although observational studies that control for other probable causes can also be valuable.

Parents were assessed with the Family Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia.19 Teens were grouped into clinical groups based on their depressive symptoms and determination of DSM - III - R20, 21 diagnoses; details on all interviewed subjects are reported elsewhere.22 This analysis focuses on a medium depression group (n = 123 [25.9 %]-RRB-, which was called the subsyndromal group.12 These teens reported a previous depression episode or subdiagnostic levels of depressive symptoms that were insufficient to meet full criteria for a DSM - III - R affective diagnosis (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score, ≥ 24).16 Teens who met the criteria for the subsyndromal group and agreed to participate were randomized to receive either the prevention intervention program or usual care.