Sentences with phrase «standards control group»

Indeed, this was a key prediction for us methodologically, since the proposition that EFT would have differential effects on our within subject manipulation served as the basis for our use of comparison conditions as opposed to a standard control group [33].

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John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.

In addition, the HRC recently expanded the use of Performance Share awards to a broader group of management, and reaffirmed the Company's directive to provide a portion of annual incentive compensation in long - term awards for the Company's highest earners and to create standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff, to further provide safeguards that either prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

The control group received standard patient education and a diet of similar energy and macronutrient composition.

Socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding by maternal education were absent or small in the control group, in whom the standard practices were provided.

Carrying out randomised controlled trials which are clearly recognised as the «gold standard» is not always possible as it is not ethical to randomly allocate mothers in a way which arbitrarily may decide that half of the group will bottle feed.

The control group mothers will received standard care while the intervention will receive care by a specially trained IBCLC and NP.

Control group women received standard of care treatment, which in our Baby - Friendly hospital includes referrals to the lactation consultant when needed, use of a pump in the hospital, access to 3 breastfeeding classes per week, staff who are highly trained in lactation management, and a free, high - grade electric breast pump for home use if the mother's insurance does not pay for a pump.

The control group, whose data was collected between January 1, 2015 and February 7, 2016, received standard nursing discharge instructions which included instructions on safe infant sleep.

Control: standard postnatal maternity care that consisted of routine perinatal care according to the type of delivery, group postnatal lactation education provided by a midwife or LC, 1 - on - 1 assistance with breastfeeding if problems arose and time permitted, and postdischarge follow - up, either at the outpatient clinic of the delivery hospital or at the nearest Maternal and Child Health Centre.

65 % and 9 % of experimental (team) and control (standard) group participants had previously met midwife attending labour.

For the other six studies undertaken in settings with Baby Friendly accreditation, study interventions were additional to care that met Baby Friendly standards and were received by everyone at the hospital including all the study participants in the intervention and control groups.

The focus on high - quality, putting control of standards and proceeds from the Levy in the hands of employers — particularly building on the already - successful Trailblazer groups — and the recognition that more expensive apprenticeship programmes like those in aerospace will require more funding are to be welcomed.

According to one Westchester County lawmaker, less than three months into a 30 - year deal transferring control of county - owned Rye Playland to management company Standard Amusements, the private group has already breached contract, failing to make its first payment to the county.

One group — the so - called control group — receives the usual standard of care.

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.

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.

Because those two companies collectively control the majority of wireless subscribers in the country, smaller carriers say AT&T and Verizon are able to manipulate standards groups and control suppliers to the point where smaller providers are unable to get access to handsets and other network gear that's commercially available at high volumes to AT&T and Verizon.

The researchers ran each group through a battery of standard motor control tests before and after the training.

For the current study, the researchers fed eight pigs a high - calorie diet, which has 23 percent fat, and fed the control group of eight pigs a standard diet with 5 percent fat during a 13 - week period.

Children in the control group, who were receiving standard community - based early intervention, had an average monthly cost of about $ 5,200 / child.

Six of the subjects did the standard Brain Fitness course; another six, constituting the control group, played a video game and read The New York Times.

The others, the control group, received standard medical therapy.

The control group, whose data was collected between January 1, 2015 and February 7, 2016, received standard nursing discharge instructions which included instructions on safe infant sleep.

The control group consisted of children who underwent immunization and a standard technique of verbal distraction by experienced nurses.

In one group, blood sugar control was tightly controlled, which was the standard procedure at our hospital.

But that study, performed in the Czech Republic, probably wouldn't pass muster today: For starters, there was no control group, no standards about who entered the study and no information about the timing of birth or placenta eating.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

A control group of mice were fed a standard diet for mice.

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.

Tapio, meanwhile, has adapted standard proteomics techniques so that they can be applied to some of the old tissues, and several groups are studying whether micro-RNAs — which help to control gene expression and are relatively stable — are present in the samples.

The other half (i.e., the control group) received standard care without the neurotoxin injection.

Fifty - three patients received standard - dose and 52 patients received low - dose CNIs (80 % of standard); 51 patients in the control group received anti — IL - 2 receptor antibody plus standard - dose CNIs.

After 6 months, 4 of 53 patients in the autologous MSC plus standard - dose CNI group and 4 of 52 patients in the low - dose group had steroid responsive biopsy - proven rejections compared with 11 of 51 controls who had steroid - resistant rejections.

In many trials, some participants are randomly assigned to the «control» group and receive an inactive «placebo» treatment or a standard intervention currently in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatment.

And when control groups are part of a study, patients in those groups typically still receive treatment (which may be the usual standard of care) throughout the trial.»

With respect to «pain self - efficacy,» a standard measurement of pain control, the meditation group was ahead at the two - month mark, but six months later that difference had all but disappeared, the investigators found.

A control group was given standard feed with a glycaemic index of 70.

Furthermore, relatively few studies human studies (Table 1) have incorporated separate CER (standard treatment) or ad libitum (no intervention) control groups.

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Researchers at Loughborough University studied healthy, college - aged women on a calorie - restricted diet and discovered that they ate an additional 300 calories, on average, at dinner compared to the control group, who ate three standard meals.

The yoga and treatment as usual control groups also received «standard medical care» during the intervention.

Of these studies, three reported significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the yoga group compared to standard care of active controls.

The control group, on the other hand, was simply given standard medical care as usual, and were not given any specific dietary recommendations.

A control group of rats was fed standard rodent chow.

For example, a close look at the data from one study finds that only 42 percent of the patients with type 1 diabetes had an elevated serum zonulin level (defined as 2 standard deviations above the control group mean)(13).

Members of a separate, exercise control group at the rehab center, assigned to complete standard 30 - minute moderate - intensity workout sessions, have been watching wistfully as the interval trainers leave the lab before them.

The control group followed a standard low - calorie diet that didn't exclude any specific foods during the same 3 - week time period (13).

In a 2015 double - blinded randomized placebo controlled trial (the gold standard for clinical trials) of over fifty pregnant women, with one group taking 1 mg of FA daily for four weeks, Lisa Houghton and her research team found that with supplementation the red blood cell levels increased but the levels of folate in breast milk did not change.

(6) In a study that lasted three months, there were noted improvements in glycemic control (0,4 %) and several heart risk factors in the group of diabetes patients who consumed a Paleolithic diet, as opposed to the group who ate under the guideline of a standard diabetes diet.