An independent review of the effectiveness of these social responsibility standards in reducing alcohol-related harms found evidence of 'many irresponsible and harmful practices' which contravened the standards and called for more effective enforcement (KPMG 2008).
The study involved almost 20,000 patients with high blood pressure and was intended to compare the effects of new hypertension medicines with standard treatments in reducing heart risk, Pfizer said.
In a recent issue of Critical Care, Turunen and colleagues explore the economic benefits of dexmedetomidine compared with standard sedatives in reducing days of mechanical ventilation [ 11].
Blocking the cellular iron uptake through these channels may add to the benefit of therapy to standard chelation in reducing myocardial iron.
Accordingly, a novel DBS paradigm that takes these network properties into account was found to be more successful than standard DBS in reducing both Parkinson's disease symptoms and tremor oscillations in the internal globus pallidus (Rosin et al., 2011).
Even though our team did not have a high fidelity as demonstrated by the DACT score, the service offered appeared to be significantly more effective than standard care in reducing readmissions and improving clinical outcomes.
The study is a phase III open, parallel group randomised controlled trial designed to test the efficacy of IG-IMRT against standard radiation in reducing late bowel grades II IV toxicity.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture with manual stimulation and acupuncture with combined manual and electrical stimulation (electro-acupuncture) compared with standard care in reducing labour pain.
The first stage (upper portion of figures) was to estimate the effect of one drug at standard dose in reducing blood pressure according to the level of blood pressure before treatment, which was done using results from a meta-analysis of short term (a few weeks) placebo controlled trials of the drugs in fixed dose.
A small non-blinded RCT of 40 participants [ 71] reported that silver nylon dressing was more effective than standard care in reducing the level of RISR severity at the end of radiation treatment (MD = -0.86, 95% CI -1.59 to -0.13, p = 0.02).
