Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) represent a pivotal design in evaluating public health and clinical interventions where individuals are grouped into clusters (such as schools, hospitals or ...
Cluster randomised trials have diminishing returns in power and precision as cluster size increases. Making the cluster a lot larger while keeping the number of clusters fixed might yield only a very ...
Background: The provision of nutritional support for patients in intensive care units (ICUs) varies widely both within and between institutions. We tested the hypothesis that evidence-based algorithms ...
Background: Sophisticated approaches are needed to improve the quality of care for elderly people living in residential care facilities. We determined the effects of multidisciplinary integrated care ...
In an open-label, two-period, two-sequence, cross-sectional, cluster-randomized, crossover trial, we assigned hospitals in Ontario, Canada, to use either lactated Ringer’s solution or normal saline ...
Cardiopulmonary POCUS using devices that attach to smartphones shortened hospital stays and reduced costs for patients ...
Adjuvant Nivolumab in High-Risk Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma: Expanded Efficacy From CheckMate 274 Sixteen towns in Sihui and Zhongshan cities, China, were selected; eight were randomly ...
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 599, Place Randomized Trials: Experimental Tests of Public Policy (May, 2005), pp. 176-198 (23 pages) In experimentally ...
The authors assessed the effect of provider education and clinical decision support (CDS) on antibiotic prescribing for acute sinusitis. Education and CDS improved antibiotic stewardship and changed ...