Master protocol for a series of cohort-based randomized controlled trials to test tools to communicate research results to study participants and others with relevant lived experie... by Brett D. Thombs, Claire Adams, Elsa-Lynn Nassar, Marie-Eve Carrier, Meira Golberg, Kanika Bharthi, Amanda Wurz, Annabelle South, Linda Kwakkenbos, Sabrina Hoa, Danielle B. Rice, Geneviève Guillot, Amanda Lawrie-Jones, Maureen Sauvé, Susan J. Bartlett, Catherine Fortune, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Marie Hudson, Laura K. Hummers, Vanessa L. Malcarne, Maureen D. Mayes, Michelle Richard, James Stempel, Robyn K. Wojeck, Kathleen Blagrave, Jill T. Boruff, Vanessa Cook, Nicole Culos-Reed, Ole Fröbert, Katie Gillies, Vera Granikov, Lars G. Hemkens, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Agnes Kocher, Catarina Leite, Mathew A. W. T. Lim, Nancy Maltez, John Michalski, Tracy Mieszczak, Mwidimi Ndosi, Janet Pope, François Rannou, Ken Rozee, Sharon E. Straus, Matthew R. Sydes, Lehana Thabane, John Varga, Tami Yap, Merrick Zwarenstein, Luc Mouthon, Andrea Benedetti, SPIN Investigators

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Cessation of smoking in people attending UK emergency departments: the COSTED RCT with economic and process evaluation by Ian Pope, Lucy V Clark, Allan Clark, Emma Ward, Pippa Belderson, Susan Stirling, Steve Parrott, Jinshuo Li, Timothy Coats, Linda Bauld, Richard Holland, Sarah Gentry, Sanjay Agrawal, Benjamin M Bloom, Adrian Boyle, Alasdair Gray, M Geraint Morris, Caitlin Notley

“…Design A two-arm pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, individually randomised, controlled superiority trial with an internal pilot, economic evaluation and mixed-methods process evaluation. …”
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Exploring the effect of multi-modal intervention against cognitive decline on atrophy and small vessel disease imaging markers in the AgeWell.de imaging study by Frauke Beyer, Lukas Kleine, Andrea Zülke, Melanie Luppa, Toralf Mildner, Jochen Gensichen, Thomas Frese, David Czock, Birgitt Wiese, Hans-Helmut König, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian, Arno Villringer, Steffi Riedel-Heller, A.Veronica Witte

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Predictive value of TG/HDL-C and GFR-adjusted uric acid levels on cardiovascular mortality: the URRAH study by Elisa Russo, Francesca Viazzi, Roberto Pontremoli, Fabio Angeli, Carlo Maria Barbagallo, Bruno Berardino, Michele Bombelli, Federica Cappelli, Edoardo Casiglia, Rosario Cianci, Michele Ciccarelli, Arrigo F. G. Cicero, Massimo Cirillo, Pietro Cirillo, Lanfranco D’Elia, Giovambattista Desideri, Claudio Ferri, Ferruccio Galletti, Loreto Gesualdo, Cristina Giannattasio, Guido Grassi, Guido Iaccarino, Egidio Imbalzano, Luciano Lippa, Francesca Mallamaci, Alessandro Maloberti, Stefano Masi, Maria Masulli, Alberto Mazza, Alessandro Mengozzi, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Pietro Nazzaro, Paolo Palatini, Gianfranco Parati, Fosca Quarti-Trevano, Marcello Rattazzi, Gianpaolo Reboldi, Giulia Rivasi, Massimo Salvetti, Valerie Tikhonoff, Giuliano Tocci, Andrea Ungar, Paolo Verdecchia, Agostino Virdis, Massimo Volpe, Claudio Borghi, Working Group on Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Risk of the Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA)

“…The incidence of fatal and non-fatal CV events increased in parallel with the increase of TG/HDL-C quintiles. TG/HDL-C ratio showed a positive association with increasing of SUA/GFR ratio, even in non-diabetic patients. …”
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Efficacy and tolerability of low versus standard daily doses of antiseizure medications in newly diagnosed focal epilepsy. A multicenter, randomized, single‐blind, non‐inferiority... by Giorgia Giussani, Elisa Bianchi, Edoardo Carlando, Jacopo Cosimo DiFrancesco, Payam Tabaee Damavandi, Francesco Pasini, Giulia Pederzoli, Stefania Filipponi, Alessandra Gaiani, Luca Massacesi, Eleonora Rosati, Ginevra Giovannelli, Teresa Anna Cantisani, Michela Cecconi, Rossella Papetti, Monica Brioschi, Francesco Aruta, Elio Clemente Agostoni, Francesco Paladin, Filippo Dainese, Marco Longoni, Bartolini Yerma, Sara Gasparini, Umberto Aguglia, Edoardo Ferlazzo, Roberto Cantello, Gionata Strigaro, Marta Maschio, Dario Benincasa, Angela La Neve, Giovanni Falcicchio, Alfonso Giordano, Lara Buttarelli, Gabriele Enia, Maurizio Leone, Carlo Ferrarese, Ettore Beghi, Simone Beretta

“…Methods Multicenter, randomized, parallel‐arm, single‐blind, non‐inferiority trial, comparing low dose versus standard dose of antiseizure medications (carbamazepine, levetiracetam, valproate, zonisamide, oxcarbazepine, topiramate, lamotrigine, gabapentin, lacosamide) in adults with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the Drink Less smartphone app for reducing alcohol consumption compared with usual digital care: a comprehensive synopsis from a 6-month follow-up R... by Claire Garnett, Melissa Oldham, Gemma Loebenberg, Larisa Dinu, Emma Beard, Colin Angus, Robyn Burton, Matt Field, Felix Greaves, Matthew Hickman, Eileen Kaner, Susan Michie, Marcus Munafò, Elena Pizzo, Jamie Brown

“…Design Two-arm, double-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial with 1 : 1 group allocation and an embedded process evaluation, with 6-month follow-up. …”
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Study protocol for VIdeo assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus conventional Open LobEcTomy for lung cancer, a UK multicentre randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot (t... by Tim Batchelor, Babu Naidu, Chris A Rogers, Jane Blazeby, Alan Kirk, Paula Rogers, Stacey Stewart, Syed Qadri, Fiona Strachan, Sarah Wordsworth, Susan J Dutton, Arjun Nair, Amy Kerr, Rajesh Shah, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth A Stokes, Mark Ainsworth, Kathryn Saunders, Daisy Elliott, Rosie Harris, Sangeetha Paramasivan, Tom Treasure, Martyn Cain, Eric Lim, Michael Shackcloth, Joel Dunning, Niall McGonigle, Tim Brush, Lucy Dabner, Holly E Mckeon, Dawn Phillips, Holly Mckeon, Chloe Beard, Alba Realpe Rojas, Elizabeth Stokes, Andrew G Nicholson, Sofina Begum, Simon Jordan, Paulo De Sousa, Monica Tavares Barbosa, Eveline Internullo, Rakesh Krishnadas, Gianluca Casali, Doug West, Karen Bobruk, Catherine O’Donovan, Louise Flintoff, Amelia Lowe, Joanna Nicklin, Emma Heron, Jo Chambers, Becky Houlihan, Laura Beacham, Heather Hudson, Katy Tucker, Toni Farmery, Danielle Davis, Mike Shackcloth, Julius Asante-Siaw, Susannah Love, Sarah Feeney, Lindsey Murphy, Almudena Duran Rosas, Andrea Young, Ian Paul, Hyder Latif, Charlotte Jacobs, Alison Chilvers, Edward Stephenson, Nazalie Iqbal, Vladimir Anikin, Claire Prendergast, Hazem Fallouh, Maninder Kalkat, Richard Steyn, Nicola Oswald, Charlotte Ferris, Jo Webb, Joanne Taylor, Hollie Bancroft, Salma Kadiri, Zara Jalal Senior, Elizabeth Belcher, Dionisios Stavroulias, Francesco Di Chiara, May Havinden-Williams, Mahmoud Loubani, Karen Dobbs, Paul Atkin, Dominic Fellowes, Leanne Cox, Vipin Zamvar, Ruth Langley, Joy Adamson, Ian Hunt, Peter B Licht, Chris Hall, Mike Cowen, Keith Kerr, Nagmi Qureshi

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Evaluation of Arabic lesson teaching in higher education based on the Kirkpatrick model by Ali Akbar Mollaie, Mohammad Aslam Raiesi

“…Questionnaire was used in the field section. The statistical population of this study includes students of higher education institutions in Tehran. …”
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Evaluating the impact of the ‘Blow, Breathe, Cough’ health promotion intervention in resolving otitis media with effusion in children: An adaptive randomized-controlled trial proto... by Jaimee R. Rich, Michael Dymock, Elke J. Seppanen, Elena Montgomery, Tanisha Cayley, Tamara Veselinović, Greta Bernabei, Anri Lester, Amy Hannigan, Nicole Irvine, Kerryn Gidgup, Edna Ninyette, Steph Bray, Tu Trang Tran, Valerie M. Swift, Melinda Edmunds, Natalie Strobel, Daniel McAullay, Julie Marsh, Evelyn Tay, Lea-Ann S. Kirkham, Ruth B. Thornton, Robyn S.M. Choi, Lydia Timms, Emily Jackson, Jafri Kuthubutheen, Peter C. Richmond, Christopher G. Brennan-Jones

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Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from COVID-19: a systematic review by Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Murtaza Kadhum, Noel Peter, Roba Khundkar, Abdullah Saleh, Archith Kamath, Anant Jani, Zara Markovic-Obiago, Zoe Li, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Ronnie E Baticulon, Muath Alser, Daniel K Ojuka, Yara Badereddin, Sai Arathi Parepalli, Grace Brown, Sara Iharchane, Sofia Gandino, Samuel Scott, Emery Manirambona, Asif Machhada, Aditi Aggarwal, Lydia Benazaize, Mina Ibrahim, David Kim, Isabel Tol, Elliott H Taylor, Alexandra Knighton, Dorothy Bbaale, Duha Jasim, Henna Reddy, Hibatullah Abuelgasim, Kirandeep Saini, Alicia Sigler, Leenah Abuelgasim, Mario Moran-Romero, Mary Kumarendran, Najlaa Abu Jamie, Omaima Ali, Raghav Sudarshan, Riley Dean, Sonam Kelzang, Sophie Roche, Tazin Ahsan, Yethrib Mohamed, Andile Maqhawe Dube, Grace Paida Gwini, Rashidah Gwokyala, Robin Brown, Mohammad Rabiul Karim Khan Papon, Salvador Sun Ruzats, Somy Charuvila, Khalil Khalidy, Nkosikhona Moyo, Arielis Solano, Eduardo Robles-Perez, Aiman Tariq, Mariam Gaddah, Spyros Kolovos, Faith C Muchemwa, Amanda Gosman, Rumi Kisyova

“…Objectives To estimate COVID-19 infections and deaths in healthcare workers (HCWs) from a global perspective during the early phases of the pandemic.Design Systematic review.Methods Two parallel searches of academic bibliographic databases and grey literature were undertaken until 8 May 2020. …”
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Melatonin versus midazolam in the premedication of anxious children attending for elective surgery under general anaesthesia: the MAGIC non-inferiority RCT by Christopher Deery, Robert Bolt, Diana Papaioannou, Matthew Wilson, Marie Hyslop, Esther Herbert, Nikki Totton, Zoe Marshman, Tracey Young, Jennifer Kettle, Sondos Albadri, Simon Atkins, Katie Biggs, Janet Clarkson, Chris Evans, Laura Flight, Jacqui Gath, Fiona Gilchrist, Kate Hutchence, Nicholas Ireland, Amanda Loban, Amy Norrington, Hamish Paton, Jaydip Ray, Helen Rodd, Elena Sheldon, Richard Simmonds, Christopher Vernazza

“…Pre-planned analyses showed an adjusted mean difference of 13.1 (95% confidence interval 3.7 to 22.4) for the intention-to-treat population and 12.9 (95% confidence interval 3.1 to 22.6) for the per-protocol population, in favour of midazolam. …”
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Presenting the conceptual model of organizational democracy with an emphasis on the development of employees' psychological capital by Sattar jahantabi neghad, Foad Makvandi, ezat allah Kiani, ghanbar Amirnegad, Vahid Chenari

“…Extended abstract Introduction Parallel to the increase of political democracy, the interest in democracy at the organizational level increased worldwide after the 1990s (Harmancy & Delishmak, 2021). …”
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Improving outcomes for people with autism spectrum disorders by reducing mental health problems: the IAMHealth research programme including one RCT by Emily Simonoff, Gillian Baird, Bryony Beresford, Tony Charman, Martin Knapp, Andrew Pickles, Carol Povey, Tom Purser, Paramala Santosh, Vicky Slonims, Stephen Scott

“…However, up till adult life, among autistic populations, it is usual to rely on parent report as the primary informant. …”
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Designing a supply chain resilience assessment model with the approach of NDEA(case of study: government hospitals of Yazd province) by Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi, Fereshteh Bahrami

“…., 2022), which can evaluate the performance of units with a network structure such as two-stage, series, parallel, mixed, etc. (Kao, 2017)</p> <ol style="text-align: left;" start="3"> <li><strong>Methodology</strong></li> </ol> <p style="text-align: left;">In terms of the purpose, this research is applied one, based on mathematical modeling with the help of the evaluation method. …”
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Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation by Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Christopher Chapple, Suzanne Breeman, David Cooper, Helen Bell-Gorrod, Preksha Kuppanda, Karen Guerrero, Simon Dixon, Nikki Cotterill, Karen Ward, Hashim Hashim, Ash Monga, Karen Brown, Marcus Drake, Andrew Gammie, Alyaa Mostafa, Rebecca Bruce, Victoria Bell, Christine Kennedy, Suzanne Evans, Graeme MacLennan, John Norrie

“…Background Overactive bladder is a common problem affecting the United Kingdom adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. …”
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Hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and economic modelling by Asra Asgharzadeh, Mubarak Patel, Martin Connock, Sara Damery, Iman Ghosh, Mary Jordan, Karoline Freeman, Anna Brown, Rachel Court, Sharin Baldwin, Fatai Ogunlayi, Chris Stinton, Ewen Cummins, Lena Al-Khudairy

“…The EAG has some concerns about using the iQVIA T1DM to model a paediatric population. Exploratory modelling of a paediatric population broadly mirrors that of the adult population, although the NHS paediatric pilot reported a smaller −0.70 HbA1c change between baseline and 6 months, with a corresponding worsening in the cost-effectiveness estimate for this scenario. …”
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High-flow nasal cannula therapy versus continuous positive airway pressure for non-invasive respiratory support in paediatric critical care: the FIRST-ABC RCTs by Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Alvin Richards-Belle, Karen Thomas, Laura Drikite, Zia Sadique, Silvia Moler Zapata, Robert Darnell, Carly Au, Peter J Davis, Izabella Orzechowska, Julie Lester, Kevin Morris, Millie Parke, Mark Peters, Sam Peters, Michelle Saull, Lyvonne Tume, Richard G Feltbower, Richard Grieve, Paul R Mouncey, David Harrison, Kathryn Rowan

“…Design A master protocol comprising two pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, non-inferiority randomised controlled trials (step-up and step-down) with shared infrastructure, including internal pilot and integrated health economic evaluation. …”
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Digital augmentation of aftercare for patients with anorexia nervosa: the TRIANGLE RCT and economic evaluation by Janet Treasure, Katie Rowlands, Valentina Cardi, Suman Ambwani, David McDaid, Jodie Lord, Danielle Clark Bryan, Pamela Macdonald, Eva Bonin, Ulrike Schmidt, Jon Arcelus, Amy Harrison, Sabine Landau

“…Design Transition Care In Anorexia Nervosa through Guidance Online from Peer and Carer Expertise was a multicentre, parallel-group, superiority randomised controlled trial. …”
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The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Star-forming Galaxies at 2.4 ≲ z ≲ 3.0 from UVCANDELS by Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst, Marc Rafelski, Vihang Mehta, Anahita Alavi, Zhiyuan Ji, Gabriel Brammer, James Colbert, Norman Grogin, Nimish P. Hathi, Anton M. Koekemoer, Laura Prichard, Claudia Scarlata, Ben Sunnquist, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Christopher Conselice, Eric Gawiser, Yicheng Guo, Matthew Hayes, Rolf A. Jansen, Ray A. Lucas, Robert O’Connell, Brant Robertson, Michael Rutkowski, Brian Siana, Eros Vanzella, Teresa Ashcraft, Micaela Bagley, Ivano Baronchelli, Guillermo Barro, Alex Blanche, Adam Broussard, Timothy Carleton, Nima Chartab, Yingjie Cheng, Alex Codoreanu, Seth Cohen, Y. Sophia Dai, Behnam Darvish, Romeel Davé, Laura DeGroot, Duilia De Mello, Mark Dickinson, Najmeh Emami, Henry Ferguson, Leonardo Ferreira, Keely Finkelstein, Steven Finkelstein, Jonathan P. Gardner, Timothy Gburek, Mauro Giavalisco, Andrea Grazian, Caryl Gronwall, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Justin Howell, Kartheik Iyer, Sugata Kaviraj, Peter Kurczynski, Ilin Lazar, John MacKenty, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Alec Martin, Garreth Martin, Tyler McCabe, Bahram Mobasher, Kalina Nedkova, Charlotte Olsen, Lillian Otteson, Swara Ravindranath, Caleb Redshaw, Zahra Sattari, Emmaris Soto, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Bonnabelle Zabelle, the UVCANDELS team

“…The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program, allocated in total 164 orbits of primary Wide-Field Camera 3 Ultraviolet and VISible light F275W imaging with coordinated parallel Advanced Camera for Surveys F435W imaging, on four of the five premier extragalactic survey fields: GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, and COSMOS. …”
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Connectivity guided intermittent theta burst stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in moderately severe treatment resistant depression by Richard Morriss, Lucy Webster, Luke Ingram, Mohamed Abdelghani, Adriana Anton, Shaun Barber, Peter Bates, Paul Briley, Clement Boutry, Cassandra Brookes, Edward Cox, Beth Hall, Marilyn James, Matthew Keane, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter Liddle, Hamish McAllister-Williams, Hyerin Oh, Alexander O’Neill-Kerr, Jehill Parikh, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Louise Thomson, Yvette Walters, Dorothee Auer

“…To examine cost-effectiveness of cgiTBS versus rTMS in a UK NHS population. To examine the patient’s acceptability and experience of cgiTBS and rTMS. …”
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