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Effect of an Invitation or the Effect of Participation: What Should Randomized Controlled Trials of Cancer Screening Examine?

Personalized Chemotherapy on the Basis of Tumor Marker Decline in Poor-Prognosis Germ-Cell Tumors: Updated Analysis of the GETUG-13 Phase III Trial Earlier detection of cancer offers an opportunity to ...
BMJ Open

Prospective randomised controlled trial of the use of nasogastric tubes in patients with adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): protocol for the NASBO study

Introduction Nasogastric tubes (NGTs) are standard practice in the management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO). Their insertion can be associated with significant patient discomfort and ...
BMJ

Exercise training and resting blood pressure: a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Objective To perform a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis on the effects of all relevant exercise training modes on resting blood pressure to establish optimal antihypertensive exercise ...
BMJ Open

Critical time intervention for people leaving prison at risk of homelessness in England and Wales (PHaCT trial): a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial

Objective To determine whether a full-scale randomised control trial (RCT) assessing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a housing led Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is feasible and acceptable.
BMJ

Comparative efficacy of exercise therapy and oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and paracetamol for knee or hip osteoarthritis: a network meta-analysis of randomised ...

Objective Clinical guidelines recommend exercise as a core treatment for knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). However, how its analgesic effect compares to analgesics, for example, oral non-steroidal anti ...