Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication's effects, producing the evidence by which ...
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have long been considered the gold standard to estimate the effectiveness of a new intervention or treatment. Homogeneity of the patient population is often desired ...
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, before we had vaccines and effective medical procedures, the only ways to prevent transmission of the virus were behavioral measures like face masks and social ...
Background: Primary care physicians, who manage the care of most children with asthma, often do not optimally assess disease control, prescribe asthma controller medications, or provide family asthma ...
Correspondence to Dr Juliana S Oliveira, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2050, Australia; juliana.oliveira{at}sydney.edu.au Intervention Intervention ...
With one exception, every gold standard study of masks in community settings has failed to find that they slow the spread of contagious respiratory diseases. The outlier is a widely cited study run in ...
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Background Although multiple studies have offered self-collection for human papillomavirus (HPV)-based cervical screening in ...