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This paper examines the design of phase II trials in oncology and recommends departing from the traditional uncontrolled trial design.
Methods: An uncontrolled trial was conducted with 26 women who had developed lymphoedema in one arm following treatment for breast cancer.
Here, we describe the process of developing a manual, delivering the intervention to a series of cases, and then conducting a small open uncontrolled trial.
Data from a long-term uncontrolled trial with 5,209 patients (6,950 patients-years) treated with celecoxib were included in a supplemental analysis.
Experts said it is not unusual for results in a large trial with a control group to be worse than those in a small, uncontrolled trial, in which patients being treated might be ones with the best chance of benefiting.
Conclusion: In this uncontrolled trial the use of indomethacin rectal suppositories resulted in a significant reduction in narcotic use in the postcesarean hospital recovery period as measured in morphine equivalents.
In the absence of adequate data from trials, older people who then take the medication are more akin to 'guinea pigs', drifting unwittingly in an uncontrolled trial in the real world.
The UK Government's National Health Service recommendation to consume "Five a Day" of fruit and vegetables is an uncontrolled trial of this sort, with one of the assumed benefits being a reduced incidence of cancer (although this is not at all proven).
This analytic method remains one of the best available approaches to understanding the effects of an intervention in "real-life," uncontrolled trial settings.
For the uncontrolled trial additional measures were obtained.
We then tested the decision aid in an uncontrolled trial.
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