A systematic review of psychological therapies for nonulcer dyspepsia

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis;  January 1, 2005 ;     264 words ......systematic review of psychological therapies for nonulcer...the effectiveness of psychological interventions including psychodrama...searches of the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CCTR), MEDLINE...articles. All randomized controlled trials or quasi-randomized...all used ...

The Cochrane Library: What's New and Noteworthy

International Journal of Childbirth Education;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Psychosocial and psychological interventions for preventing...psychosocial and psychological interventions compared...psychosocial and psychological interventions, 2.) the...Register of Controlled Trials (October...randomized controlled trials of ...

Psychological interventions effective against chronic low back pain

The Hindustan Times;  December 23, 2006 ;     517 words ......Times Washington, Dec 23 -- Psychological interventions for chronic low back pain are...said. The review found that psychological interventions also yielded improvements in...cure people with chronic pain,. Psychological interventions are not cures, but they do reduce...

The development of a register of randomized controlled trials in...

Prehospital Emergency Care;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......establish a register of randomized controlled trials of interventions in the prehospital...was conducted for all randomized controlled trials of interventions in the prehospital...which 28 were reports of randomized controlled trials evaluating prehospital trauma care...

Psychological treatments help improve back pain

The Hindustan Times;  December 25, 2006 ;     136 words ......gathered data from 22 random trials. They found that psychological interventions - alone or as part of a multi-disciplinary approach...reduction in pain intensity. The review found that psychological interventions also yielded improvement in health-related quality...

A spreadsheet for analysis of straightforward controlled trials.(Reprint)

Sportscience;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......value of the outcome statistic in controlled trials and crossovers is easy enough. More...about the effect of the treatment in controlled trials. I also explained how the more recent...but straightforward analysis of controlled trials either by repeated-measures ANOVA...

The design and assessment of prospective randomised, controlled trials in...

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Randomised controlled trials represent the gold standard...surgical research. Randomised, controlled trials (RCri's) accounted for only...need systematic randomised controlled trials in orthopaedic surgery? Although...

Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis of Febrile Neutropenia

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the past 30 years from randomized controlled trials. Few fields in infectious diseases...more recently.2-4 In randomized controlled trials, mortality rates are lower, reflecting...have been addressed by randomized controlled trials. More recently, systematic reviews...

Cost-effectiveness and medical cost-offset considerations in psychological...

Canadian Psychology;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......evidence has demonstrated that psychological interventions can effectively treat a wide...costing issues associated with psychological interventions, including cost-effectiveness...evidence has demonstrated that psychological interventions can be more cost-effective than...

Current Controlled Trials.(New online venture from Current Science...

Online;  January 1, 1999 ;     114 words ...Current Controlled Trials is a new Web-based publishing...services for users interested in controlled trials. The initiative includes a Web...journals and databases (http://www.controlled-trials.com), with the major resource...

Psychological integration of interventions that work.(Chair's Corner)

Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......existed among the various theories have given way to psychological interventions based upon evidence-based treatments (EBT). Cognitive...techniques? The best therapists seem to be learning psychological interventions that are evidence-based and are useful for the presenting...

Recommendations for trial research would make it harder to fund Ed Tech....

Education Technology News;  November 20, 2002 ;     531 words ......fund programs based on randomized controlled trials, a move that would leave most programs...few education-related randomized controlled trials. Before 1962, randomized trials were...recommendation to use randomized controlled trials would limit which programs are funded...

The New Anecdotes

Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......implications of findings from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of antidepressant drug efficacy...antidepressant effects; randomized controlled trials; case studies; suicidality Multiple...suggest that antidepressant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) show roughly 50% of ...

Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy for Peptic Ulcer Bleeding: Cochrane...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Cochrane Library, and metaRegister of Controlled Trials databases and published proceedings...through November 2004 for randomized controlled trials that compared oral or intravenous...inclusion of more recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Our aim was to evaluate the...

Fluoroquinolones vs [beta]-Lactams for Empirical Treatment of...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......PubMed database, Cochrane Database of Controlled Trials, and references of relevant articles...2006. RESULTS: Twenty randomized controlled trials that enrolled 4817 patients were...In subset analyses of randomized controlled trials that studied ciprofloxacin (OR, 2...