This workshop provides an overview of types of qualitative designs: in-depth interviews, focus groups, content analysis, observation, sampling strategies, participant recruitment, constructing an ...

Noninferiority clinical trials have become a major tool for the evaluation of drugs, devices, biologics, and other medical treatments. Treatment with placebo or with a no-treatment control in a study ...

Clinical trials are well-controlled and designed experiments that aim to prove that an Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) is effective. Clinical trial data is submitted to the national health ...

Systematic reviews that include evidence from nonrandomized studies (NRS) involve the usual steps (Alderson et al, 2004): defining the question, writing a protocol, setting inclusion and exclusion ...

Improving study designs is one important step towards better reproducible experiments in animal-based research. Although many animal experiments are still indispensable, there is agreement on limiting ...

Parents' Experiences With and Preferences for Receiving Information About Tumor Genomic Sequencing: Findings From a Qualitative Study and Implications for Practice For a 2-year overall survival end ...

As biomarker studies employ increasingly complex and expensive genomics and other correlative methods, it is increasingly important to rigorously design these studies and analyze the downstream ...