While successful in completing our pilot study objectives, there is additional work required to further evaluate these web-based services for persons with mental health problems.
A site-specific comprehension assessment, which included a qualitative component and a standardised written checklist, was used to evaluate how accurately study participants were able to retain key messages relating to pilot study objectives.
As this was a phase I, pilot study, our objective was to obtain safety data in demonstrated amyloid-positive AD, with subsequent larger trials, permitting more detailed subgroup analyses.
Based on the results from a pilot study, five objective measures (pixel-based dynamic range, image key, area of bright regions, contrast and colorfulness) were selected as candidates for a PDR predictor model; two of which have been found to be significant contributors to the model.
This pilot study provides objective 3D gait and plausible biomechanical evidence for the improvement in clinical symptoms from partial upper fibulectomy.
This pilot study provides objective support for the notion that early application of nCPAP can lead to measurable improvement in TV, EtCO2, RSBI and reductions in intubations.
The M61022 study was an open monocentre pilot study whose objective was to determine the steady-state concentrations of saquinavir and nelfinavir in CSF and plasma when administered together, and to evaluate the impact of these two PIs given in combination with two NRTIs on CSF and plasma viral load.
Being a pilot study, the objective was only to study the effect of bFGF alone and in the combination with LIPUS and to study the bone growth on the mandibular condylar head as a proof or principle, and hence no test was conducted to check for the presence of the plasmid at the end of the treatment or assess the duration of gene expression during the study period.
Conclusions: This pilot study indicates that objective assessment of the effects of rhDNase is feasible in infants with CF who have little or no respiratory symptoms.
As this was a pilot study with the objective of proof-of-concept, we felt that a careful internal analysis study was adequate.
