Sentences with phrase «scale effectiveness studies»

However, safety concerns remain because large scale effectiveness studies are lacking.

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This becomes a scaling - up issue, which needs implementation and quality improvement approaches rather than effectiveness studies.

«While the small - scale study suggests that beta - blockers may reduce the risk of breast cancer returning, more research is needed in this area to determine the effectiveness and safety of the treatment before it can be routinely offered to breast cancer patients.

For example, the results of one study, known as UPLIFT, one of four large - scale studies conducted in 2008, demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of a drug called Spirivain about 6,000 patients with respiratory disease.

In addition to studying the material and its effectiveness, the team wanted to determine how to best scale up the new filtration material so it would be viable for large - scale operations at power plants.

The study, «Effectiveness of a Scaled Up Physical Activity Intervention in Brazil: A Natural Experiment,» recently was published in Preventive Medicine, an international journal devoted to the science and practice of disease prevention, health promotion and public health policymaking.

No large - scale, long - term studies have been conducted to examine the effectiveness and safety of custom - compounded MHT.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

POGO is an international network of collaborators who foster partnerships that advance efficiency and effectiveness in studying and monitoring the world's oceans on a global scale.

There is a shortage of high - quality evidence demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of long - term opioid therapy for the management of chronic pain, and to date, no large - scale studies have assessed strategies for managing and reducing chronic opioid use in real - world clinical settings.

The scientific community warns that there are no large - scale studies to prove cupping's effectiveness, and that in some cases where «bloodletting» (small cuts) are involved, it could be downright dangerous.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

Teachers» effectiveness can be reliably estimated by gauging their students» progress on standardized tests, according to the preliminary findings of a large - scale study released Friday by leading education researchers.

Although large - scale studies regarding the effectiveness of student - led conferences have not been conducted, small case studies find that student - led parent / teacher conferences increases a student's responsibility for learning and that student - led meetings can be especially helpful for those with disabilities or other special considerations.

Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost - Effectiveness The first large - scale national study to identify and prioritize the factors that make some technology implementations perform dramatically better than others, demonstrate that schools employing a 1:1 student computer ratio and the key implementation factors outperform other schools, and reveal significant opportunities for improving education return on investment (ROI) by transforming teaching and learning.

At the same time, they incorporate classroom evidence of student learning and they have recently been shown in larger - scale studies to predict teachers» value - added effectiveness, so they help ground evaluation in student learning in more stable ways.

The present study of a full - scale trial of BEST YMH will allow the researchers to test its effectiveness as a treatment and a youth engagement tool.

She has been directing a statewide evaluation of Oregon's Healthy Families (HFO) program for over 15 years and recently completed a large - scale randomized study of program effectiveness.

More recently, her work has been guided by the growing realization among program evaluators, implementation scientists, and policymakers that a new balance is needed between effectiveness and efficacy studies when investing in program research to guide broad scale replication of evidence based program models.

This study evaluated the Triple P System as implemented on a large scale across nine mid-sized South Carolina counties, thus providing evidence of the System's effectiveness under real - world implementation conditions.

In partnership with developers at the Oregon Research Institute, SRI conducted a large - scale study of the effectiveness of an early intervention program intended to help children in grades 1 — 3 who are at risk for developing, or who demonstrate, antisocial or aggressive behaviors.

Two studies have analysed cost effectiveness of CBT for severe health anxiety delivered in a conventional face - to - face format compared with treatment as usual using data from randomised controlled trials.8, 9 In the first study, it was found that CBT but not the control condition reduced consumption of primary and secondary healthcare contacts, but total costs were unchanged in both conditions.8 In the second study, a large - scale randomised trial, the health economic analyses showed that there were no significant differences between the two treatment conditions.9 In both of the above studies, CBT was superior in reducing health anxiety symptoms compared with treatment as usual, which means that as costs were similar across groups, CBT is likely to be the more cost - effective treatment option.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the mindfulness - based cognitive therapy - assessment scale (MBCT - AS) tool to measure treatment fidelity in the delivery of mindfulness - based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in an Australian setting.