One term comes up repeatedly in discussions of nonprofit measurement: randomized, controlled trials, or RCTs. In a randomized, controlled trial, the researcher randomly assigns some people to ...

A randomized controlled trial is one of the best ways of keeping the bias of the researchers out of the data and making sure that a study gives the fairest representation of a drug's safety and ...

A randomised controlled trial is the best way to compare a new treatment with the standard treatment. And randomising trial participants is a core feature of the experiment.

Because of ethical considerations, scientists haven’t been able to conduct randomized controlled trials to conclusively prove the effectiveness of mask-wearing on interrupting coronavirus ...

Randomized controlled trials articles from across Nature Portfolio Randomized controlled trials are clinical trials in which at least two interventions — the test treatment and a control ...

Prognostic stratification using the nomogram sarculator and its impact on study results in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for localized soft tissue sarcomas (STS): A secondary analysis of the ...

In this randomized, controlled trial involving patients with very high use of health care services, readmission rates were not lower among patients randomly assigned to the Coalition’s program ...

We conducted a multicenter, prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, registry-based trial involving infants (<1 year of age) undergoing heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass at 24 sites ...

MANCHESTER, England — Two new randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the role of rituximab in the treatment of various stages of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have the green light to ...

Both randomized controlled trials and real-world evidence can help define a treatment’s absolute value and its value relative to alternative interventions, but they do so in different ways.

In randomized trials of such agents when there is already established efficacy, patients randomly assigned to the control arm who progress might then naturally qualify for the investigational drug in ...