The Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial is a research methodology that has been growing in popularity, particularly for pragmatic implementation and dissemination trials. SW-CRTs can have ...

Nursing home residents are at high risk for infection, hospitalization, and colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms. We performed a cluster-randomized trial of universal decolonization as c ...

A cluster-randomized design was chosen because the intervention was implemented hospital-wide; a crossover design was chosen to improve the power and statistical efficiency of the trial.

Following informed consent prior to radical prostatectomy, patients are enrolled onto the trial and surgeons are randomized using a cluster randomization. Surgeons are randomized to perform a PLND vs.

A comprehensive fall prevention program integrated into primary healthcare systems significantly reduced falls among older ...

Randomization Issues For a start, despite posing as a randomized controlled trial the design looks actually to be a cluster randomised trial with eight hospital wards being randomized, not individual ...

A nurse-led family support intervention in the intensive care unit (ICU) led to a small, but statistically significant, improvement in family satisfaction with care, a Swiss cluster randomized ...

Background To assess the effects of the injury prevention programme ‘11+ Kids’ on reducing severe injuries in 7 to 13 year old football (soccer) players. Methods Football clubs (under-9, under-11 and ...