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We aimed to assess the empirical evidence that such a trial effect exists.
All specimens were grown on the same site; however, they were grown during different time periods which are confounded with the effect of the two provenances and hence are included as a trial effect.
There is also a possibility of having a trial effect in the IPTi study cohort.
Second, part of the improvements might be related to a "trial effect".
Indeed, ANOVA for repeated measures (with trials as repeated measures) revealed a trial effect (F(11,418)=35.031; P<0.0001) but did not reveal significant differences among groups in the acquisition performances (F(11,418)=1.026; P=0.422).
Peppercorn et al. therefore state: " Despite widespread belief that enrollment in clinical trials leads to improved outcomes in patients with cancer, there are insufficient data to conclude that such a trial effect exists.
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Results: The heterogeneity of trial designs and the use of different comparators necessitated a Bayesian hierarchical meta-analysis with three models: (a) random trial effect and fixed treatment effects, (b) random trial and treatment effects, (c) random trial and treatment effects with trial variance unknown.
All groups showed a significant trial effect demonstrating that some groups learned while others did not (F5,175 = 280.22, p<0.0001).
A significant trial effect for the escape latency [F 3,90) = 11.19, p<0.0001] and path length [F 3,90) = 7.36, p = 0.0002] was associated with a decrease of these parameters across the four trials.
These differences were further supported by a significant trial effect (F5,125 = 285.31, p<0.01), yet no interaction was noted between the factors of group and trials (F20,125 = 9.24, p = 0.41).
There was a significant TRIAL effect (P = 0.004, rdf = 0.81).
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