Sentence examples for trial decision making from inspiring English sources

Implications of simultaneous monitoring on trial decision making are yet unclear.

The role of parents in trial decision making is therefore complex – they can be simultaneously responsible for their child and dependent on practitioners.

Grappling with complex, medical information is always part of trial decision making but when this is on behalf of a vulnerable and dependent child, rather than to serve one's own rights and interests, the decision will likely feel more serious and possibly overwhelming.

In offering 'protection' from the difficulties of trial decision making, the knowledge that there are treatments which they cannot access, and from the knowledge that treatment is determined by chance, this approach might be considered 'kinder' to those families allocated to the conventional treatment arm.

Although industry sponsorship was the respondents' preferred source of funding, relationships with sponsors, especially regarding sponsor control over trial decision making, data, and/or publication, were a major concern, reflecting ongoing explorations of the means of assuring transparency in reporting the results of clinical research.

In addition to the analyses described above, a computational analysis of decision-making patterns was conducted in order to characterize the trial-by-trial decision making patterns on the IGT.

The ERASE Chest Pain trial demonstrated improved triage decision making in symptomatic ED patients with diabetes when evaluated via ARMPI and the PREMIER trial validated the reliability of ARMPI for ruling out MI when applied to patients in developing countries.

Although the primary goal of phase II trials is decision making rather than inference, obtaining an estimate of the true response rate is often of interest, particularly when the trial was deemed successful and the new drug accepted for further evaluation in phase III trials [ 7].

If the reported outcomes are relevant and measured consistently to allow comparison of interventions across trials, such trials can inform decision making.

DA: Decision aid; DMP: Disease management programme; EPRS: Electronic patient record system; ICD: International classification of diseases; ISDM: Informed shared decision making; RCT: Randomised controlled trial; SDM: Shared decision making.

4 In January 2005 and in March 2008, we held two-day meetings in Toronto, Canada, to discuss ways to increase the contribution of randomised controlled trials to healthcare decision making, focusing on pragmatic trials.