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What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample (2024)
Book Chapter
Sim, J., Lancaster, G., & Lewis, M. (2024). What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample. In A Medical Educator's Guide to Thinking Critically about Randomised Controlled Trials: Deconstructing the "Gold Standard" (109-144). Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25859-6_5

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are generally regarded as the gold-standard method to answer questions of treatment effectiveness. Carefully designed and rigorously implemented, they can provide unbiased estimates of average treatment effectivene... Read More about What do RCTs tell us, and could they tell us more? Looking within and beyond the study sample.

From Planning to Implementation: The Challenges of Recruiting Older Adults With Parkinson’s to a Feasibility Trial (2020)
Book Chapter
Edelstyn, N., & Sim, J. (2020). From Planning to Implementation: The Challenges of Recruiting Older Adults With Parkinson’s to a Feasibility Trial. In G. Lancaster (Ed.), Sage Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529742503

MeMory PaD was a 24-month feasibility trial of two slow-release dopamine agonists, pramipexole, and ropinirole, prescribed in Parkinson’s to manage movement problems. MeMory PaD opened in April 2013 and closed in September 2015. A total of 220 patien... Read More about From Planning to Implementation: The Challenges of Recruiting Older Adults With Parkinson’s to a Feasibility Trial.

Analysis of covariance (2018)
Book Chapter
Sim, J. (2018). Analysis of covariance. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Grounded theory (2018)
Book Chapter
Sim, J. (2018). Grounded theory. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Multiple linear regression (2018)
Book Chapter
Sim, J. (2018). Multiple linear regression. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation

Simple linear regression (2018)
Book Chapter
Sim, J. (2018). Simple linear regression. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation