Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
"Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.
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D016032
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.760.250.500.365.500 N05.715.360.775.088.500.387.500 N06.850.520.450.250.250.365.500
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2009 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2011 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2012 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2013 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2014 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2015 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2016 | 3 | 18 | 21 |
| 2017 | 3 | 24 | 27 |
| 2018 | 3 | 16 | 19 |
| 2019 | 6 | 22 | 28 |
| 2020 | 4 | 18 | 22 |
| 2021 | 1 | 21 | 22 |
| 2022 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2023 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2024 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic" by people in Profiles.
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Communication Interventions Targeting Both Patients and Clinicians in Oncology: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials. Psychooncology. 2025 Mar; 34(3):e70108.
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A pilot randomized clinical trial of a smartphone-based application to support at-home PSA screening and culturally tailored prostate cancer education for African American men: A study protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Dec; 147:107737.
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De-escalation to ticagrelor monotherapy versus 12 months of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with and without acute coronary syndromes: a systematic review and individual patient-level meta-analysis of randomised trials. Lancet. 2024 Sep 07; 404(10456):937-948.
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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the cerebrovascular space: essential domains for readers. Neurosurg Rev. 2024 Aug 22; 47(1):454.
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A social media game to increase physical activity among older adult women: protocol of a randomized controlled trial to evaluate CHALLENGE. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 12; 24(1):2172.
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Selective early medical treatment of the patent ductus arteriosus in extremely low gestational age infants: a pilot randomised controlled trial protocol (SMART-PDA). BMJ Open. 2024 Jul 24; 14(7):e087998.
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Rhythm vs Rate Control Strategy for Atrial Fibrillation: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2024 Jul; 10(7 Pt 1):1395-1405.
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An Integrated mHealth App for Smoking Cessation in Black Smokers With HIV: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 04 24; 13:e52090.
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Colchicine for the treatment of patients with COVID-19: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open. 2024 Apr 17; 14(4):e074373.
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How do we achieve blinding in modern electronic and paper medical records during the conduct of transfusion trials? Transfusion. 2024 Mar; 64(3):428-437.