Subjects were registered in a patient allocation table by block randomization, and were allocated to either Group A or Group B for investigation in accordance with this allocation table.
Subjects and methods: In the Danish Osteoporosis Prevention Study (DOPS), perimenopausal women were allocated to either HRT or no HRT.
A total of 238 pain sufferers were allocated to either ACT, a control condition on Expressive Writing, or a waiting list condition.
Specifically, 76 healthy and fall-prone older adults were allocated to either a balance training programme conducted over 5 weeks or to a passive control condition.
Methods: Small-sized geographic areas, including 91,199 individuals aged 45 74 years, were allocated to either FOBT screening or no screening.
Patients were allocated to either a low-frequency group (0 1 vomiting episodes per day) or to a high-frequency group (2 and more vomiting episodes per day).
Subjects: Three groups: 130 high-risk pregnant women, who entered a randomized clinical trial and were allocated to either home (n=69) or in-hospital monitoring (n=61), and a reference cohort of low risk pregnant women (n=55).
In total, 42 male odour donors were allocated to either a "garlic" or "non-garlic" condition, after which they wore axillary pads for 12 h to collect body odour.
Study 1: Rats without inflammation were allocated to either a treatment group (n = 6) that received three applications of joint mobilization centrally over L5 or a sham-treated group (n = 6) who received non-specific handling.
Sixty-eight Holstein-Friesian dairy cows were allocated to either a high or low pregrazing HM (1,700 vs. 2,400 kg of DM/ha; >40 mm), and within HM treatment, cows were further allocated to either a high or low DHA (16 vs. 20 kg of DM/d per cow; >40 mm) in a 2 × 2 factorial design.
Children between the ages of 6 10 years, who scored at or below the 16th percentile on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2) and whose teacher reported a functional motor problem, were allocated to either NTT (n = 37) or Wii training (n = 19) groups depending on school of attendance.
