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Planning a Randomized Clinical Trial

2004· article· en· W2327245934 on OpenAlexaff
Mohit Bhandari, Emil H. Schemitsch

Bibliographic record

VenueTechniques in Orthopaedics · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHip and Femur Fractures
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicinePlan (archaeology)Quality (philosophy)Sample (material)Clinical trialManagement scienceSample size determinationRandomized controlled trialProcess managementMedical physicsMedical educationSurgeryEngineeringPathology

Abstract

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Summary: A high-quality clinical study often requires as much time in planning and preparation as it does in its execution. Although there are hundreds of steps required in the development of a study plan, this article focuses on important considerations that should be addressed in all study plans. These include: 1) asking clinically important questions, 2) conducting comprehensive literature searches, 2) refining the study question after the literature search, 3) choosing the appropriate study methodology (eligibility and outcomes), 4) determining study sample size, 5) identifying research team members, 6) writing the complete study proposal, 7) obtaining ethics approval, and 8) applying for funding.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.147
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.262
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score0.776

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1470.262
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.005
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0040.002
Research integrity0.0080.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0690.015

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.421
Teacher spread0.368 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations9
Published2004
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