Objectives To assess the value of pilot and feasibility studies to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) ...

4 DHU Risk in Pregnancy, Maternité Port Royal Paris Descartes University Cochin Broca Hotel Dieu Hospitals Assistance publique des hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 5 UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne ...

Objective To determine the benefits and harms of subacromial decompression surgery in adult patients with subacromial pain syndrome lasting for more than 3 months. Design Systematic review with ...

Background Time series charts are increasingly used by clinical teams to monitor their performance, but statistical control charts are not widely used, partly due to uncertainty about which chart to ...

EO is a template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast. Evolutionary algorithms forms a family of ...

Eligibility criteria English-language CPGs on rehabilitation following ACL reconstruction that used systematic search of evidence to formulate recommendations. Methods We followed the Preferred ...

1 Colorectal Cancer Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, St James's Institute of Oncology, St James's Hospital Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Northern and Yorkshire ...

To improve patient safety, surgeons can continually monitor the surgical outcomes of their patients. To this end, they can use statistical process control tools, which primarily originated in the ...

Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034 Barcelona, Spain Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Section of ...

Objectives Consumption of the drug khat is high across East Africa and the South-Western Arabian Peninsula despite evidence for its adverse psychiatric effects. This systematic review aims to explore ...

Institute of Energy Technologies, Department of Chemical Engineering and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE, Eduard Maristany ...

1 Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2 Department of Critical Care Medicine and O’Brien Institute ...