Sentence examples for interventions and small from inspiring English sources

These limitations include heterogeneity in the comparison interventions, duration of the interventions, and small sample size.

However, previous research [ 35] has shown that 9 10 year old school children are receptive to interventions and small behavior changes and motivational practices for families may be possible.

It is concerning that kidney enlargement does not appear reversible at this early stage in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy, although our conclusions are limited by the short duration of intervention and small sample size.

"It's tough when the government doesn't encourage any kind of negotiation," he said, noting that in some cases early intervention and small sums of money can prevent hostages captured by common criminals from being handed on to jihadi groups.

Limitations of this study were that the service was not assessed as part of a RCT (i.e. all women received intervention) and small sample size, limiting the ability to effectively assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of the intervention.

However, gut microbial modulation is not always initiated by medical intervention, and small bowel transplants used in cases of intestinal failure permit an opportunity for long-term study of the microbial ecology of the human small bowel.

With only one RCT and limitations in imprecision and indirectness (due to applicability of intervention and small total sample size) there is low quality evidence that there is no significant difference in effect on functional status between pPrT and not intervening at all.

This is in part due to the different reporting methods used, the variance of reported effect sizes and a paradox that in the largest trials effect sizes tend to be quite similar irrespective of intervention and small to medium in magnitude [ 6, 7].

The review by Jolly et al was critical of the variety of home based cardiac rehabilitation interventions and the small size and poor quality of trials.

Collectively, prescribing activities had higher baseline achievement rates than measurement activities in 2000-1, slower increases in achievement rates in the pre-intervention period, and smaller increases above projected rates in the first intervention year (2004-5) of between 1.2% and 8.3%.

A few investigators have studied the effectiveness of health and safety interventions in large and small businesses using randomized, controlled trials [ 5, 12- 14], but have been largely unsuccessful at bringing about significant changes in workplace health and safety.