As anyone who has conducted large-scale randomised clinical intervention trials would know, this type of evaluation research is difficult, expensive and time-consuming, yet incredibly important, as randomised, controlled trials are the one methodology that helps us to answer the key questions that Dr Coyne continues to raise: does screening for distress actually improve patient outcomes?
Abbreviations: HRQoL, health-related quality of life; QALY, quality-adjusted life years; RCT, randomised controlled trial The important role of food and nutrition in public health is being increasingly recognised as crucial for its potential impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and economics, both at the societal and individual levels.
As explained in the vignette, the abstract is an important part of the publication of a randomised, controlled trial (RCT).
The most important of these, RTOG 85-01, was a US Intergroup randomised controlled trial comparing chemoradiation with RT alone (Cooper et al, 1999).
Studies carefully designed to identify determinants of irreversible disability are needed, inclusive randomised controlled experiments evaluating pension decisions as important health care interventions.
An important contributor to the first review was our own SPHERE cluster randomised controlled trial.
The linked randomised controlled trial by Von Korff and colleagues (doi: 10.1136/bmj.d6612) assessed an important model for promoting healthy ageing in people with multiple chronic illnesses.
There is evidence from other randomised, controlled trials of the benefit of online CBT.
The gold-standard test of medicine is the double blind, randomised controlled trial.
group-clustered randomised controlled trial.
This was a randomised, controlled, prospective trial.
