The initial Stroke Therapy Academic Industry Roundtable (STAIR) recommendations
published in 1999 were intended to improve the quality of preclinical studies of purported …

Questionnaires offer an objective means of collecting information about people's knowledge,
beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour. 2 3 Do our patients like our opening hours? What do …

INTRODUCTION: This systematic review evaluated root resorption as an outcome for
patients who had orthodontic tooth movement. The results could provide the best available …

Objectives To systematically review and quantitatively synthesize the effect of vitamin D
supplementation on muscle strength, gait, and balance in older adults. Design Systematic …

Medicinal herbs and their derivative phytocompounds are being increasingly recognized as
useful complementary treatments for cancer. A large volume of clinical studies have reported …

Newly discovered true (non-null) associations often have inflated effects compared with the
true effect sizes. I discuss here the main reasons for this inflation. First, theoretical …

Adequate reporting of randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) is necessary to allow accurate
critical appraisal of the validity and applicability of the results. The CONSORT (Consolidated …

Objective To examine whether the association of inadequate or unclear allocation
concealment and lack of blinding with biased estimates of intervention effects varies with the …

Despite years of research and hundreds of reports on tumor markers in oncology, the
number of markers that have emerged as clinically useful is pitifully small. Often initially …

Background Educational meetings are used widely by health personnel to provide
continuing medical education and to promote implementation of innovations or translate …