The institutional review board or ethics committee for each participating institution trial reviewed and approved the trial.
JH served as Medical Director in the trial, reviewed and interpreted the data, and reviewed the manuscript.
Limits imposed "English," "clinical trial," "meta analysis," "randomized controlled trial," "review," "human," for specificity EMBASE, http://www.datastarweb.com, 1974 to date.
Keywords used were "vitamin D," "muscle," "strength," "fall," "frailty," "risk," "chronic kidney disease," "supplementation," "randomized controlled trial," "review," "systematic review," and "meta analysis".
The prosecutors offered a sort of mini-trial, reviewing their detailed, incriminating but circumstantial case against Ms. Olson.
No adverse events were reported in trials reviewed.
Subjects: The trials reviewed comprised a total of 345 participants.
"There was no single death by suicide in children and adolescents in the 70 trials reviewed for the article".
They also pay special attention to issues of study design and quality of the trials reviewed.
Further, with an overview of seven RCTs including the four trials reviewed by Ernst,11 Ernst and White12 conclusively reported that acupuncture for weight loss was not effective.
To me – and to the report's authors – the major flaw in the clinical trials reviewed is the lack of emphasis on quality of life.
