Objectives: Cluster randomised trials, in which groups of individuals are randomised, are increasingly being used in the health field. Adopting a clustered approach has implications for the design of ...

Current strategies for preventing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are limited to nonpharmacologic interventions. Hydroxychloroquine has been proposed as a ...

In Canada, cesarean delivery rates have increased substantially over the past decade. Effective, safe strategies are needed to reduce these rates. Among the 184,952 participants, 53,086 women ...

In a recently published study in the Annals of Family Medicine, Aimee English, MD, et al, describe a cluster-randomized trial evaluating the differential impact on cardiovascular disease care of ...

Background: We developed and tested a new method, called the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality method, for continuous quality improvement. Methods: We used cluster randomization to assign ...

Background: The provision of nutritional support for patients in intensive care units (ICUs) varies widely both within and between institutions. We tested the hypothesis that evidence-based algorithms ...

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 66-73 (8 pages) In many community-based surveys, multi-level sampling is inherent in the design. In the design of these ...