Throughout the experiment, except for the test trial, a record was taken of the latencies to find the platform for each rat.
A second option is to include only members not involved in the trial, except for the trial statistician, who acts as the DMC statistician.
All the above-mentioned studies, except for the trial of Wetering et al. [ 55], failed to introduce blinded outcome assessors or did not report this as such.
The included trials were of good methodological quality except for the trial by Yildirim et al. 27 Insufficient details were given to enable assessment of blinding at all levels.
The studies also found a high compliance with follow-up regimens: between 86% and 98% of women who tested positive to HPV DNA underwent appropriate follow-up investigations [ 22, 24- 28] except for the trial in France [ 29].
Except for the EINSTEIN trials, each trial had similar inclusion criteria, requiring the presence of symptomatic proximal DVT with or without PE (Table 1).
First, the majority are either phase II trials or retrospectively analyses except for the randomised trials by Vogelzang et al, 2003, and van Meerbeeck et al, 2005, which may not be entirely comparable as there is usually a tendency towards higher response rates observed in the very selective non-randomised trials.
Except for the Canadian trials, all of them were single-center trials.
In all treatments the time between feeding trials was the same (one week, except for the interrupted trials).
Except for age, the trial arms were comparable at baseline with respect to socio-demographic characteristics, duration of ART use prior to randomization, and duration of multivitamin use prior to randomization (Table 1).
