Sentence examples for comparator condition from inspiring English sources
We selected OA as a comparator condition in order to understand how patients with inflammatory arthritis compared with a similar group of Medicare-enrollees without inflammatory arthritis-related disease and treatment-associated risk factors for infection, fracture, malignancy, and cardiovascular events.
The comparator condition was the opiate-treated condition.
In addition, we expect that the intervention dominates the comparator condition in terms of cost-effectiveness.
In the present investigation, a comparator condition was designed that consisted of unrelated or unpaired stimuli [ 3].
HEP was designed as a comparator condition for mindfulness-based interventions to control for non-specific effects.
Randomization of the study subjects (randomizing individuals, not groups) and the presence of a comparator condition (no intervention, placebo, care as usual).
We sought to measure stigma towards individuals with differing migraine phenotypes versus comparator conditions.
Our analyses thus identified regions activated by incentive conflict that were different from those activated in comparator conditions, indicating a distinct motivational meaning of the compound stimulus relative to its individual elements.
One potential reason prior investigations have not observed medial temporal lobe involvement particularly in the hippocampus, is that the baseline comparator conditions used also contained a formal relation, such as matching two identical circles [ 10] or an explicit rule [ 2].
Our experimental design allowed us to reveal regional activity associated uniquely with the cognitive and motivational processes involved in the task (conflict resolution and regulation of behavioral response) by excluding activity evoked by comparator conditions (presence of reward, presence of compound stimuli irrespective of reward contingencies, or simple reversal) using masking analysis.
Another multicenter study by Kocsis et al., in which the use of CBASP amongst other alternatives was assessed as an augmentative strategy to psychopharmacology, revealed that CBASP in addition to pharmacotherapy led to response rates of the same order as the comparator conditions (supportive therapy with pharmacotherapy or optimized pharmacotherapy) [ 16].
