Publications by authors named "T A Rich"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the challenges of achieving effective blinding in clinical trials using transcranial direct current stimulation, particularly focusing on children and young adults.
- Researchers aimed to compare blinding success between these two groups and evaluate a new ActiSham protocol against traditional sham methods.
- Results showed that while both groups recognized active stimulation, children were less accurate in identifying sham conditions and exhibited higher confidence in their responses, highlighting the need for better blinding techniques in trials involving children.
Objective: Individuals with chronic conditions have long-term needs which can be addressed by maintenance rehabilitation. The 2013 settlement in the United States (US) clarified the Medicare coverage of maintenance rehabilitation as a skilled service, even when no improvement is expected. A scoping review was conducted to describe maintenance rehabilitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurvivors of neurologic injury (most commonly stroke or traumatic brain injury) frequently experience a disorder in which contralesionally positioned objects or the contralesional features of individual objects are often left unattended or underappreciated. The disorder is known by >200 unique labels in the literature, which potentially causes confusion for patients and their families, complicates literature searches for researchers and clinicians, and promotes a fractionated conceptualization of the disorder. The objective of this Delphi was to determine if consensus (≥75% agreement) could be reached by an international and multidisciplinary panel of researchers and clinicians with expertise on the topic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To develop and administer an assessment tool for facilitating patient-clinician discussions regarding amputation-related pain and sensation.
Materials And Methods: An assessment tool was developed to measure the impact of different types of amputation-related pain and sensation on a patient's life. The tool first provides patients with written descriptions and images of three common types of amputation-related pain or sensations: residual limb pain, phantom limb sensation, and phantom limb pain.
Purpose: We aimed to determine if ultrahypofractionated proton therapy delivered via stereotactic body proton therapy (SBPT) is noninferior to conventionally fractionated proton therapy (CFPT) in patients with early prostate cancer.
Methods And Materials: This study was a multicenter, randomized, controlled, noninferiority phase 3 trial that included patients with histologically confirmed low-risk prostate adenocarcinoma defined by Gleason score grouping 1, Prostate-specific antigen <10 ng/mL, and clinical stage T1-T2a N0 M0 according to 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor-node-metastasis cancer staging system. Eligible participants were randomly assigned initially at a 1:1 ratio and later at a 2:1 ratio to SBPT (38 Gy in 5 fractions) or CFPT (79.