Sentence examples for position of equipoise from inspiring English sources

The ideal position of equipoise for a trial is when both patient and clinician have no particular preference for alternative treatment strategies.

Surgeons may be reluctant to participate in trials because they do not consider themselves to be in a position of equipoise or may be reluctant to enroll all patients because of treatment preferences.

Patients refusing the trial should be offered the standard track intervention, not the fast-track, otherwise the position of equipoise is not maintained and patients (and/or their carers) are likely to refuse, in the expectation of receiving the service.

We have found that trained RAs assume a position of equipoise effectively (whereby there is no preferred treatment and a balanced account of both treatment options is given to patients) and spend sufficient time with patients explaining the study, which has resulted in good consent rates from eligible patients.

From a social perspective, violation of equipoise is essential to efficient medical progress.

In addition, RCTs usually start from an assumption of equipoise -- i.e. a position of not knowing which of two competing interventions is more effective, or not knowing whether an intervention is likely to be beneficial or harmful [ 17] -- but this position is not clear with regards to exercise referral schemes.

As a matter of incentives, it places him in a sort of equipoise.

It is a wonder that he can sustain that sort of equipoise.

Right now Gansevoort exists in a state of equipoise, neither wild nor tamed, and that is what makes it great.

I was neurologically developing as she was neurologically regressing, and that winter we were at a moment of equipoise.

Trial enrollment can be hindered by a lack of equipoise and parental reluctance to agree to study tests.