In the United Kingdom there's a controversial agency called the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence that performs those kinds of studies and sets policy for the national health budget.
"There is good clinical evidence that longer consultations will allow us to do that, but if we are to meet all the targets the government is setting us we need far more GPs, and more nurses, " he added.
Leslie Hamilton, vice chair of Safe and Sustainable, the NHS group reviewing children's congenital heart services, said he believed there had been a recognition by some experts in the field that "change is needed" based on clinical evidence that larger units had better results "by way of fewer deaths and fewer complications".
It is not supported by any clinical research evidence that would allow claims to be made that it is the cause of disease or health concerns.
Most importantly, the Oregon results on health outcomes are consistent with a mountain of clinical evidence showing that Medicaid makes no meaningful difference, at best, compared to being uninsured.
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The advisory panel decided that clinical studies presented by Transkaryotic did not provide strong evidence that the drug worked.
He said that there was clinical evidence to support longer consultations.
Currently the evidence that robot surgery offers better clinical outcomes is mixed.
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The typical clinical trial model may not be best suited for generating evidence that a drug is safe and effective against diseases where patient enrollment can be difficult and diseases progress slowly and unevenly over a long period of time, according to Steven Grossman, who worked on the original Orphan Drug Act in 1983 and is now a policy and regulatory consultant.
There is anecdotal evidence that the waiting-list target has skewed clinical priorities, with easily-treatable cases being given undue attention to bring the numbers down quickly.
Second, the Journal of Clinical Nutrition should not have published the study, given that the evidence for the alleged connection between artificial sweeteners and cancer was no more compelling than a dice roll.
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The NAO report states that last year Serco regularly had insufficient staff to fill all clinical shifts, but a review found that there was "no evidence" that the service provided was clinically unsafe.
He added that the big drop in LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, seen in the study is consistent with previous evidence for Zetia and Vytorin, and that a wealth of clinical data going back decades links lowering LDL to preventing heart attacks, deaths and other heart problems.
It could mark the start of the next great drug-liability war, and already the drama seems all too familiar: scared patients, contradictory studies, a company that calls the evidence "inconclusive" and is accused of skewing clinical data--and lawyers looking at whether there's enough damage here to cash in.
"We believe that there is now overwhelming evidence that DSM-5 is scientifically unsound (and) statistically unreliable, " said clinical psychologist Peter Kinderman, director of the University of Liverpool's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society.
These clinical trials, in which patients are randomly assigned to various treatment strategies, have provided us with an evidence base that is the envy of the other fields.
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