The EDISSE study is a prospective non-randomized controlled cluster trial that compared stroke services (n = 151 patients) to usual care (n = 187 patients).
Statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs, are also effective against a common condition that harms women's fertility, according to a clinical trial that compared them with a drug often used to treat the condition.
In the late 1970s, he helped plan and conduct a federal trial that compared continuous oxygen therapy to nighttime-only therapy in 203 patients with the disease whose blood oxygen levels were low.
In one study, a 12-week trial that compared an S.S.R.I., Paxil, to interpersonal psychotherapy, Dr. Arthur Brody, also at U.C.L.A., found that depressed patients who responded to either treatment had nearly identical changes in their brain function, a decrease in the abnormally high activity seen in the prefrontal cortex before treatment.
In the ASAP trial that compared Lipitor and Zocor, patients had arteries that were about 0.9 mm thick.
Moreover, this analysis included one retrospective study [19] and one trial that compared volar locking plates with closed reduction and percutaneous pinning [20].
An outpatient trial that compared two new fluoroquinolones--gemifloxacin and trovafloxacin--showed high response rates of 92.5% and 87.3%, respectively [11].
The Management of Myelomeningocele Study was a multicenter, randomized controlled trial that compared prenatal repair with standard postnatal repair for fetal myelomeningocele.
The Kenya Primary Math and Reading Initiative was a randomized controlled trial that compared three treatment groups with specific ingredients and a control group.
Data from the letrozole 024 (LET 024) trial that compared letrozole and tamoxifen is used to illustrate a combined endpoint analysis that integrates both clinical and biomarker information.
This is a report of a randomized trial that compared endoscopic sclerotherapy (EST) with emergency portacaval shunt (EPCS) in cirrhotic patients with acute variceal hemorrhage.
