Clustering by health professional in individually randomised trials.

What it found

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The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Do the effects of acupuncture vary between acupuncturists? Analysis of the Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration individual patient data meta-analysis.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2021
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2. Quality of reporting internal and external validity data from randomized controlled trials evaluating stents for percutaneous coronary intervention.BMC medical research methodology · 2009
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3. Risk Model-Guided Clinical Decision Support for Suicide Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025
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4. Impact of complex, partially nested clustering in a three-arm individually randomized group treatment trial: A case study with the wHOPE trial.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2022
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5. A community-based motivational personalised lifestyle intervention to reduce BMI in obese adolescents: results from the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) randomised controlled trial.Archives of disease in childhood · 2017
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6. Comparison of error-based and errorless learning for people with severe traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized control trial.Trials · 2013
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7. The Fremantle Primary Prevention Study: a multicentre randomised trial of absolute cardiovascular risk reduction.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
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8. Assessing the efficacy of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) compared with enhanced standard care of the obese adolescent in the community: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2011
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9. The MATISSE study: a randomised trial of group art therapy for people with schizophrenia.BMC psychiatry · 2010
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10. A randomized clinical trial of the effectiveness of mechanical traction for sub-groups of patients with low back pain: study methods and rationale.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2010
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11. A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to promote early presentation of breast cancer in older women: effect on breast cancer awareness.British journal of cancer · 2009
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12. Discussing coronary risk with patients to improve blood pressure treatment: secondary results from the CHECK-UP study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2009
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13. Randomised controlled trial of a short course of traditional acupuncture compared with usual care for persistent non-specific low back pain.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2006
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14. Randomised controlled trial to compare GP-run orthopaedic clinics based in hospital outpatient departments and general practices.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2005
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15. Point-of-care C-reactive protein testing and antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections: a randomized controlled trial.Annals of family medicine
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16. The incidence and associated factors of hypotension during spinal anesthesia at tertiary hospital: a prospective cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025
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17. Statistical analysis plan for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing enhanced acceptance and commitment therapy plus ( +) added to usual aftercare versus usual aftercare only, in patients living with or beyond cancer: SUrvivors' Rehabilitation Evaluation after CANcer (SURECAN) trial.Trials · 2025
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18. Statistical methods in the analysis of multicentre HIV randomized controlled trials in the African region: a scoping review.BMC medical research methodology · 2025
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19. The Development, Validity, and Responsiveness of a Patient-Centred Outcome Measurement Tool for Evaluating Integrative Medicine Interventions.International journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork · 2023
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20. Partially clustered designs for clinical trials: Unifying existing designs using consistent terminology.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2023
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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