We designed an explanatory, cross-sectional trial to assess whether Pelvis shoulder coordination during walking in AS patients differs from that in healthy subjects.
Three randomized controlled trials (RCTs), one epidemiological trial, and one cross-sectional trial investigating biomaterials will be supported by two translational platforms supplying the infrastructure for multicentre data-management, bio banking, electroencephalography, and neuroimaging.
A research consortium of ten universities across Germany has therefore implemented a 4 year research agenda including three randomized controlled trials, one epidemiological trial and one cross-sectional trial to address these areas of unmet needs.
This single-centre cross-sectional trial had research ethics committee approval.
This study is a cross-sectional trial in outpatients with type 2 diabetes using data from the DUTY registry (7).
DYSIS was an observational cross-sectional trial which collected data in a uniform, prospective way in 748 practices across Germany.
Colpaert and colleagues [ 26] conducted a prospective, controlled, cross-sectional trial in two paper-based units versus one computerized unit in order to evaluate and compare the incidence and severity of medication prescribing errors between these two systems.
A prospective, controlled cross-sectional trial was conducted in two paper-based units (PB-Us; total of 14 beds (8 + 6)) versus one computerized unit (C-U; 8 beds), 10 months after implementation of the ICIS in the latter unit.
In a cross-sectional trial from Belgium, the implementation of a computer-assisted medical support system in the intensive care unit-setting, reduced by 3-fold the rate of medication prescription errors in patients with renal insufficiency [ 23].
In this cross-sectional trial, the study group consisted of seventy-three patients who had been admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Department of Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, between April, and September 2010, with a complaint of wheezing.
This mainly cross-sectional trial provided valuable baseline health information on 33,000 75+ year olds, including 5000 in the 85+ age group, with some follow-up for mortality and hospital/institutional admissions.
