Sentence examples for trial uncertainty from inspiring English sources

Evaluation of currently available and widely used treatments such as topical corticosteroids and calcineurin inhibitors in a 'head-to-head' randomized controlled trial (uncertainty 7).

More detailed information is needed to answer questions such as 'should the first line treatment for vitiligo be topical agents (topical steroids or calcineurin inhibitors) or more aggressive intervention such as narrowband ultraviolet B?' A factorial trial design could evaluate all three treatment options in one trial (uncertainties 3 and 8).

An important aspect of Posner's location-cueing task relates to the trial-by-trial uncertainty about the predictive value of the spatial cue (i.e., the probability that the target appears at the cued location in a given trial) (cf. Yu and Dayan 2005).

One way in which RCTs differ from normal everyday experience is that all patients in the trial have uncertainty about what treatment they were assigned.

This paper explores the current status of healing and intention research, citing a number of major studies and using the "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in Cardiac Bypass Surgery Patients: A Multicenter Randomized Trial of Uncertainty and Certainty of Receiving Intercessory Prayer" as a case study of this line of research.

Moreover, with a small number of included trials the uncertainty interval for the inconsistency among trials may not be very informative [ 13].

We have focused on quantitating the TCs associated with treating patients in cancer clinical trials, as uncertainty surrounding the size of cost difference between treatment in or outside of trials, particularly non-commercial trials, is a barrier to their efficient conduct.

Measurement of individuals' costs and outcomes in randomized trials allows uncertainty about cost effectiveness to be quantified.

For each of the above three trials, the uncertainty regarding risk of bias was so marked that their findings must be viewed with extreme caution.

Rather, within a given block of trials, spatial uncertainty in where the target might appear was altered to affect the distribution of attention.

However, this treatment is not routinely used, probably because of lack of a large randomized controlled trial, and uncertainties regarding optimal drug and dosage regimens [ 6].