OtherNeurorehabilitation and neural repair2024
Control intervention design for preclinical and clinical trials: Consensus-based core recommendations from the third Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable.
Kathryn S Hayward, Emily J Dalton, Jessica Barth, Marian Brady, Leora R Cherney, Leonid Churilov, Andrew N Clarkson, Jesse Dawson, Sean P Dukelow, Peter Feys, Maree Hackett, Steve R Zeiler, Catherine E Lang
PMID 37837348WHAT IT FOUND
No clinical outcomes are reported.
This paper does not change patient care.
What this paper is
This is a consensus statement and decision-support tool about how to choose control interventions for stroke rehabilitation trials. It reports no patients, treatments compared in a trial, or clinical outcomes, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that any control intervention improves stroke recovery. It is a consensus guide for designing trials, not a clinical outcome study.