Appendices B–G include checklists for those study designs that are expected to be used in the evidence reviews for NICE social care guidance. Other checklists can found in the NICE clinical guidelines ...

Interventional trials aim to find out more about a particular intervention or treatment. A computer puts people taking part into different treatment groups. This is so that the research team can ...

An approach where the dependent variables are measured before and after an intervention has been delivered. The intervention can either be delivered by the investigator or by others (observational ...