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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Mixed Monoamine Reuptake Inhibitor in Adults with ADHD
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: NS2359 is a potent reuptake blocker of noradrenalin, dopamine, and serotonin. The aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy, safety and cognitive function of NS2359 in adults with a DSM IV diagnosis of ... -
A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce low literacy barriers in inflammatory arthritis management
(Elsevier BV, 2009)Objective Test the efficacy of educational interventions to reduce literacy barriers and enhance health outcomes among patients with inflammatory arthritis. Methods The intervention consisted of plain language ... -
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adherence and Depression (CBT-AD) in Patients With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes
(American Diabetes Association, 2014)OBJECTIVE To test cognitive behavioral therapy for adherence and depression (CBT-AD) in type 2 diabetes. We hypothesized that CBT-AD would improve adherence; depression; and, secondarily, hemoglobin A1c (A1C). RESEARCH ... -
Randomized controlled trial of computer-based treatment of social cognition in schizophrenia: the TRuSST trial protocol
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic medical condition, characterized by positive and negative symptoms, as well as pervasive social cognitive deficits. Despite the functional significance of the social cognition ... -
Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent Therapeutic Education on Antibiotics to Improve Parent Satisfaction and Attitudes in a Pediatric Emergency Department
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Objective: To evaluate therapeutic education delivered in a pediatric emergency department to improve parents’ satisfaction and attitudes about judicious antibiotic use. Methods: In an emergency department of a tertiary ... -
Randomized Controlled Trial of Social Media: Effect of Increased Intensity of the Intervention
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Background: A prior randomized controlled trial of social media exposure at Circulation determined that social media did not increase 30‐day page views. Whether insufficient social media intensity contributed to these ... -
A randomized controlled trial of vitamin E and selenium on rate of decline in lung function
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: The intake of nutrients with antioxidant properties is hypothesized to augment antioxidant defenses, decrease oxidant damage to tissues, and attenuate age-related rate of decline in lung function. The objective ... -
Randomized controlled trials – a matter of design
(Dove Medical Press, 2016)Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the hallmark of evidence-based medicine and form the basis for translating research data into clinical practice. This review summarizes commonly applied designs and quality indicators ... -
A randomized experiment of a cognitive strategies approach to text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English language learners in grades 6-12.
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)This study reports year 1 findings from a multi-site cluster randomized controlled trial of a cognitive strategies approach to teaching text-based analytical writing for mainstreamed Latino English Language learners (ELLs) ... -
A randomized experiment of a mixed-methods literacy intervention for struggling readers in grades 4–6: effects on word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency
(Springer Nature, 2009)The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the causal effects of READ 180, a mixedmethods literacy intervention, on measures of word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency and ... -
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRoundsTM-Based Intervention
(2012-07-18)Background: Leadership WalkRoundsTM have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRoundsTM involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees’ ... -
Randomized Institutional Isomorphism - Evidence from Afghanistan
(2013-02-22)The dissertation compiles a series of essays which describes effects of various institutional variations randomized across a sample of 500 villages in Afghanistan in 2007. The first essay examines the institutional effects ... -
Randomized Kaczmarz algorithms: Exact MSE analysis and optimal sampling probabilities
(IEEE, 2014)The Kaczmarz method, or the algebraic reconstruction technique (ART), is a popular method for solving large-scale overdetermined systems of equations. Recently, Strohmer et al. proposed the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm, ... -
Randomized Optimum Models for Structured Prediction
(Microtome Publishing, 2012)One approach to modeling structured discrete data is to describe the probability of states via an energy function and Gibbs distribution. A recurring difficulty in these models is the computation of the partition function, ... -
Randomized Phase II Study of Cilengitide, an Integrin-Targeting Arginine-Glycine-Aspartic Acid Peptide, in Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme
(American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2008)Purpose Cilengitide, an inhibitor of αvβ3 and αvβ5 integrin receptors, demonstrated minimal toxicity and durable activity across a wide range of doses administered to adults with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) ... -
A randomized placebo-controlled pilot study of N-acetylcysteine in youth with autism spectrum disorder
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Social impairment is a defining feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with no demonstrated effective pharmacologic treatments. The goal of this study was to evaluate efficacy, safety, and tolerability of ... -
Randomized placebo-controlled study of intravenous methylnaltrexone in postoperative ileus
(Maney Publishing, 2013)Objective: This phase 2 study evaluated the safety and activity of intravenous methylnaltrexone on the duration of postoperative ileus in patients undergoing segmental colectomy. Methods: Adults (aged 18 years or older) ... -
A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Targeted Prefrontal Cortex Modulation with Bilateral tDCS in Patients with Crack-Cocaine Dependence
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been shown to be clinically useful in the treatment of drug addiction. Methods: We conducted a double-blind randomized clinical ... -
Randomized Tax Enforcement Messages: A Policy Tool for Improving Audit Strategies
(Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations, 2014)Reducing tax evasion is a key challenge for governments around the world, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a methodology to generate information to optimize audit strategies. Randomly selected ... -
A Randomized Trial Assessing the Clinical Efficacy and Microbial Eradication of 1% Azithromycin Ophthalmic Solution vs Tobramycin in Adult and Pediatric Subjects with Bacterial Conjunctivitis
(Dove Medical Press, 2007)Objective: The study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of an ophthalmic formulation of 1% azithromycin in DuraSite® (AzaSite™, InSite Vision, Alameda CA, USA) and demonstrate equivalence with 0.3% tobramycin ophthalmic ...