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Most trials reviewed (63%) used balanced randomisation; however only 26% appropriately adjusted for all balancing factors in their primary analysis, indicating that the majority of trials using balanced randomisation may be reporting overly conservative results.
Most trials reviewed here use various combinations of traditional neuropsychological testing subtests (b, c, d, e, e2, i, l), and one trial used an Alzheimer disease-specific assessment scale (a).
While most trials reviewed here documented to some extent the implementation of adherence support approaches and exploration of general acceptability and feasibility of the approaches, none used fidelity and implementation monitoring strategies commonly adopted in trials of behavioral interventions (e.g., video or audio review or evaluation of counseling sessions).
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Most sepsis clinical trials reviewed did not include hemodynamic goals of therapy.
For most of the trials reviewed, 'serious bacterial infections' are defined as those requiring antibiotics or hospitalization.
Most of the trials reviewed by the IDB have at least some degree of biomarker involvement, which also requires stringent reviews with regard to the roles of biomarkers in the trial and the analytical performances of the biomarker assays.
Most of the trials reviewed do not focus on hard clinical endpoints, which may carry more meaningful clinical significance such as the need for acute or chronic dialysis or mortality.
13 The authors noted that most of the studies did not describe the randomisation method and that ascertaining whether allocation was concealed was not possible for most of the 19 trials reviewed.
40 Most of the Spanish trials reviewed 30 31 37 38 stand out for the following common characteristics: use of the model developed by Prochaska and Diclemente, advance training for participating health professionals, selection of a D-day to stop smoking and the use of medication at the discretion of the prescribing physician.
With this sample size, a z-test of independent proportions would have power=.79 if the group proportions meeting guidelines differed by approximately.25, a value reached or exceeded by medication, diet, and weighing adherence in most of the intervention trials reviewed.
Despite its appropriateness, the Z-score methodology has been scarcely used in clinical trials of treatments for iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy [ 19]; for instance, Mumtaz et al. (2000) were the only one to apply the Hb Z-scores among 23 clinical trials reviewed in the most recent meta-analysis [ 19, 42].
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