Sentences with phrase «study is the gold standard»

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Even the glitteriest of gold - standard clinical trials, for instance, are often undone by a leaden follow - up study that has the nerve to arrive at a different result.

First, the topline numbers: The study was an observational one rather than a randomized control trial, the latter of which is considered to be the «gold standard» of clinical studies.

The study, which confirms that the «gold standard» for the rearing of children is the intact biological family, of married mom and dad staying together faithfully and raising their own offspring, naturally causes a furor.

«Whey protein has been the gold standard of the fitness industry, but intolerance to lactose affects nearly 70 % of the world's population; as such this study will make a huge impact.»

Another study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science discovered that the gold standard for happiest couples are those that have sex once a week.

For the same reason, it is not easy to prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapies.

If testing is done, a 24 - hour pH probe study -LRB--RRB- is the current «gold standard» for reflux testing in babies; this is a procedure where a tube is placed down baby's throat to measure the acid level at the bottom of the esophagus.

Regarding the science criticism, it's impossible to scientifically prove by a placebo - controlled, double - blind, randomized study (the gold standard in science) that AP works better than a more distant style of parenting.

The MANAstats registry contains high - quality data that uses the gold standard — the medical record — instead of birth certificate data, which research shows is unreliable for studying intended place of birth and newborn outcomes.

We could pick through those studies» respective strengths and weaknesses, talk about why we'll never have a «gold - standard» randomized controlled trial (because women will never participate in a study that makes birth choices for them), and I could quote a real epidemiologist on why determining the precise risk of home birth in the United States is nearly impossible.

The USGS is a federal agency whose scientific studies are reputed to be the gold standard of independent governmental research, and not subject to political pressure.

However, these studies are not randomised controlled trials — the gold standard — in which people are randomly assigned placebos or drugs.

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.

And the Sanofi Pasteur study was a randomized, controlled, blinded trial — the gold standard in clinical research.

«The gold standard test (for OSA) is still a sleep study and we would not replace that, but because the wait is so long, we needed something quick and reliable to help bump kids up the priority list or to better understand who is at the highest risk for OSA,» said Dr. Sherri Katz, principal investigator at the CHEO Research Institute and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

«Despite its narrow therapeutic window and the emergence of proprietary alternatives, U.S. FDA - approved lithium therapeutics are still regarded as the «gold standard» for the treatment of the manic phase of bipolar disorder,» said study lead author Adam J. Smith, PhD, a neuroscientist at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, at USF Health.

The gold standard to determine if a study is replicable is, of course, to try and conduct it again, with the goal of achieving the same results.

For years now the gold standard for R&D in Alzheimer's disease has focused on generating convincing evidence that any new therapy being studied could slow the cognitive decline of patients and help preserve their ability to perform the kind of daily functions that can keep a patient independent for a longer period of time.

Often clinical studies fall short of the rigorous methodology demanded by «gold standard» clinical trials, in which patients are assigned to treatment groups at random and nobody knows which group is which.

Using simple statistics, without data about published research, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomized clinical trials — the gold standard of human research — were likely to be wrong 15 percent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies are likely to fare even worse.

The evaluation of THN programs is challenging: randomized controlled trials are often considered the gold standard of scientific study, but conducting trials for THN would often be unethical and fraught with difficulties given the infrequency and unpredictability of overdose.

The technique is the «gold standard» for metabolic studies, and the researchers did a «terrific job» using it to compare the total calories burned daily by apes and humans, says biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Double - blind clinical trials, the gold standard for research studies in medicine, have never been conducted to investigate the effects of marijuana's terpenes or its cannabinoids other than THC.

Idrobo adds that new electron microscopy techniques can complement existing methods, such as x-ray spectroscopy and neutron scattering, that are the gold standard in studying magnetism but are limited in their spatial resolution.

The study compared the main different ways of diagnosing C - Diff, including the two «gold - standard» methods: a cytotoxin assay, which looks for the presence of C - Diff toxin in faecal samples; and cytotoxigenic culture, which looks to see if there are bugs present in faecal samples that could possibly produce C - Diff toxin.

But analysis of whole genomes — the gold standard for population studies — was scanty for many key parts of the world.

Though seen as the gold standard of medical research, such studies — even ones involving thousands of participants — may be too small to ferret out rare risk factors or side effects.

«A gold - standard cancer treatment is in decline, and money may be why: Brachytherapy for cervical cancer a net loss for hospitals, study finds.»

The gold standard in clinical trials is a randomised, placebo - controlled study.

A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the current gold standard, the Morris Water Maze.

«A-MUD delivered results of equal quality to manual analysis, which is the gold standard,» says Doris Reitschmidt, co-author of the study.

This study used 24 hour sodium extraction, which is considered the gold standard for salt intake estimation at individual level.

A key strength of the study is that the diagnostic performance was compared against full karyotyping, which is the gold standard for aneuploidy diagnosis.

In closing, I think it would be worthwhile to conduct large - scale studies of carefully characterized depressed patients and healthy controls, using gold - standard clinical and infectious disease - related study protocols, as have already been developed for bacteria [68, 69] and viruses [70 — 76].

New studies provide new clues Opioid - based painkillers, such as morphine, have been the gold standard for treatment of postoperative and chronic cancer pain for 200 years.

However, he added that this hasn't been proven in a randomized controlled study, the gold standard of medical research.

Pedometers, which clip onto the waistband at the hip, have been the gold standard for accurately counting steps both in and out of the lab, says Greg Welk, an associate professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University, who was not involved in the new study.

Although this method is considered the gold standard for estimating sodium intake, that lone urine test may not provide an accurate snapshot of the participants» everyday intake over the full eight - year study, as the researchers themselves note.

A particular strength of this study is its use of both isotopically labelled glucose and the hyperinsulinemic - euglycemic clamp technique, which is considered the gold standard method for assessment of insulin sensitivity, and allows for the differentiation between peripheral and hepatic insulin sensitivity.98 It should be noted however that this was a study of eight lean, glucose tolerant men and thus presents a possible limitation for these findings.

Herbs — the dried stems, roots, or flowers of medicinal plants — were the gold standard in natural healing for many years until recently, when the properties of essential oils were studied and found to be many times more potent than the dried whole plant.

«Such findings were further bolstered by the results of randomized trials — types of studies that many consider the gold - standard of research.

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

This method of energy expenditure measurement has been validated by several studies and is known to be 92 % accurate compared to the gold standard method of doubly labeled water [17 - 24].

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.

True Grit ™ Post contains a clinical dose of Leucine that has been shown in a gold - standard study to help subjects increase their 5 - rep max strength by over 40 % in just 12 weeks.

These studies were actually surveys of individuals self reported diet habits and weight loss, so are interesting but not the gold standard of proof researchers prefer to see (14).

Herbs — the dried stems, roots, or flowers of medicinal plants — were the gold standard in natural healing for many years until recently, when the properties of essential oils were studied and found to be...

Body composition in strength - training men was measured using dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA, the gold standard) over a 12 - week study (Wilson et al., 2014).

The study was well designed; it was a double blind, placebo controlled trial on humans, which is the gold standard of scientific research.

All of the studies are randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of science.