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Competency Framework for Podiatric Medicine Training: A Validation Report Based on an Adapted E-Delphi Across Canada.

Competency-based medical education has been introduced into many health professional curricula. Based on CanMEDs, a framework has recently been developed for podiatric medicine education in Canada. This study aimed to validate the framework through a consensus of various podiatric medicine experts across Canada. An adapted Delphi method was used for content validation. Two structured online questionnaires were used to gather expert opinions and agreement on the roles and core competencies described in the framework previously developed. The validation consensus threshold was set at a minimum of 80% agreement. The summary of comments and suggestions was used to reformulate certain items after the research team reached a consensus. Out of the 51 experts invited from the Canadian Podiatric Medicine Association, 19 completed the first-round questionnaire (mean podiatric experience = 24.5 years; standard deviation 17.6). After the first round, "Podiatric Expert", "Communicator" and "Scholar" roles have been modified. After these modifications, a consensus was obtained at the second round completed by 13 experts. Overall, 95% of the experts agreed that the competency framework was relevant even if some indicators would need to be adapted to suit the requirements of each province and territory. This validated framework supports the excellence and the quality of our podiatric educational program. It also promotes the adoption of a uniform education of podiatrists in Canada and worldwide.

Twenty-five components of a baseline, best-practice companion animal physical exam established by a panel of experts.

To establish the components of a best-practice, baseline companion animal physical exam (CAPE). 25 small animal veterinary internists and 20 small animal primary care veterinarians, all teaching the CAPE at veterinary colleges in the US, Canada, and Australia. Using the Delphi Method of Consensus, 3 rounds of online questionnaires were sent to participants. The first round included demographic questions, questions about teaching the physical exam, and an open-ended question allowing participants to record details of how they conduct a CAPE. In the second round, participants were asked to rate components of the CAPE, which were derived from round 1, as "always examine," "only examine as needed," or "undecided." Following round 2, any component not reaching 90% consensus (set a priori) for the response "always examine" was put forth in round 3, with a summary of comments from the round 2 participants for each remaining component. 35 components of a baseline CAPE were identified from round 1. The 25 components that reached 90% consensus by the end of round 3 were checking the oral cavity, nose, eyes, ears, heart, pulse rate, pulse quality, pulse synchrony, lungs, respiratory rate, lymph nodes, abdomen, weight, body condition score, mucous membranes, capillary refill time, general assessment, masses, haircoat, skin, hydration, penis and testicles or vulva, neck, limbs, and, in cats only, thyroid glands. The findings establish an expert panel's consensus on 25 components of a baseline, best-practice CAPE that can be used to help inform veterinary curricula, future research, and the practice of veterinarians.

Introduction to Special Edition: Comparative Reflections on Scientology and NXIVM

This special issue of the International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation is dedicated to articles about Scientology and NXIVM, so it offers an opportunity to present evidence, in an academic setting, about Scientology’s possible influence on Keith Raniere (b. 1960) and the organization that he founded. I provide, therefore, a summary of comments that former members and critics of both groups have made about the (alleged) Scientology influence on NXIVM, and I conclude with my own interpretations of why some apparent similarities exist between the two groups and their creators. I realize that my comments are only preliminary (pending the discovery of new information), and I identify some lacuna in both evidence and interpretation that further researchers may want to pursue.

An international Delphi consensus for pelvic stereotactic ablative radiotherapy re-irradiation

IntroductionStereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) is increasingly used to treat metastatic oligorecurrence and locoregional recurrences but limited evidence/guidance exists in the setting of pelvic re-irradiation. An international Delphi study was performed to develop statements to guide practice regarding patient selection, pre-treatment investigations, treatment planning, delivery and cumulative organs at risk (OARs) constraints. Materials and methodsForty-one radiation oncologists were invited to participate in three online surveys. In Round 1, information and opinion was sought regarding participants’ practice. Guidance statements were developed using this information and in Round 2 participants were asked to indicate their level of agreement with each statement. Consensus was defined as ≥75% agreement. In Round 3, any statements without consensus were re-presented unmodified, alongside a summary of comments from Round 2. ResultsTwenty-three radiation oncologists participated in Round 1 and, of these, 21 (91%) and 22 (96%) completed Rounds 2 and 3 respectively. Twenty-nine of 44 statements (66%) achieved consensus in Round 2. The remaining 15 statements (34%) did not achieve further consensus in Round 3. Consensus was achieved for 10 of 17 statements (59%) regarding patient selection/pre-treatment investigations; 12 of 13 statements (92%) concerning treatment planning and delivery; and 7 of 14 statements (50%) relating to OARs. Lack of agreement remained regarding the minimum time interval between irradiation courses, the number/size of pelvic lesions that can be treated and the most appropriate cumulative OAR constraints. ConclusionsThis study has established consensus, where possible, in areas of patient selection, pre-treatment investigations, treatment planning and delivery for pelvic SABR re-irradiation for metastatic oligorecurrence and locoregional recurrences. Further research into this technique is required, especially regarding aspects of practice where consensus was not achieved.

Digital Stories as a Creative Assignment for Studying World Religions

The incorporation of creative assignments in the form of digital stories and artistic assignments in undergraduate and graduate World Religions courses has resulted in positive feedback from the students, and these courses were considered the favorite of the semester. They have given students, many of which identify as “spiritual but not religious”, or “non-practicing”, an opportunity to connect themes from various world religions to their own life stories, implicitly or explicitly. The purpose of this article is to encourage educators in both a secondary and a college/university/seminary setting to consider digital stories as a creative assignment that deepens their understanding of world religions within the context of a World Religions course, or other religion and religious education courses. This article will present the institutional support provided by Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, New York) and the context for the World Religions class in which the digital stories are assigned. It will be followed by the process of making a digital story, the directions given to the students, the different platforms that students can choose to make the digital stories, and examples of digital stories created by the students. The paper will conclude with a summary of comments made by the students about the assignment and connections with additional articles on the benefits of digital stories to increase empathy and replace the dominant stories that cause oppression and injustice, like racism and white supremacy, with stories that offer resistance and counter the status quo of oppression and injustice.

Presidential Address

Presidential Address Adele Reinhartz President of the Society of Biblical Literature 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Virtual Meeting 6 December 2020 Introduction given by James C. VanderKam Vice President, Society of Biblical Literature https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1401.2021.1a It is a pleasure to introduce Adele Reinhartz, the President of the Society of Biblical Literature for the year 2020, but it is also a daunting responsibility because she is so accomplished. In the next few minutes I will attempt to do some justice to her impressive record. Adele took her BA degree from the University of Toronto in 1975 and her MA at McMaster University in 1977, with a thesis entitled "The Abraham Midrashim." For her doctoral work, she continued at McMaster, receiving her degree in 1983. Her dissertation, directed by Ed Sanders, bore the title "John 20:30–31 and the Purpose of the Fourth Gospel." It was the beginning of her interaction with the Gospel of John that continues to the present. Adele's studies led to a career at several universities in Canada and indeed around the world. Her initial appointment came while she was still in her doctoral program. She began in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Toronto in 1981 and remained there until 1987, at which point she took up a position at McMaster in its Department of Religious Studies. She remained at McMaster until 2002, and while there became an Associate Dean in the School of Graduate Studies. McMaster was the first to recognize her administrative gifts but certainly not the last. Although she maintained her connection with McMaster as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religious Studies from 2002 to 2012, in 2002 she became the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Wilfrid Laurier University and held the office until 2005, while also being a professor in the Department of Religion and Culture. Her next stop, beginning in 2005, was her present location, the University of Ottawa. At Ottawa she is a professor in the [End Page 3] Department of Classics and Religious Studies, while from 2005 to 2007 she was the Associate Vice-President for Research. She is also an Affiliate of the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies (2020–), has a cross-appointment to the School of Music (2020–2023), and is currently the chair of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies. A colleague there speaks highly of her innovative leadership at a challenging time, calls her a wonderful model and collaborator, and commends her for how clear, considerate, and constructive she is in meetings, whether she agrees with or differs from what others are saying. Adele has held visiting positions in a number of institutions around the world. They include universities in Canada, the United States, South Africa, Germany, and Israel, as well as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was awarded the highest honor an academic can receive in Canada when she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005. Time constraints allow only a summary of comments I have received from Adele's students. Words that figure in them are authentic and genuine—terms for Adele's relationship with students and for what she encourages them to be in their research and writing. One calls her "an incredibly understanding person who pushes students to be the best they can be." Or, Adele "has always provided me with thoroughly helpful, practical, and wise advice about how to make my way in academia as a junior scholar." Another said that she "guides without hovering." So much has she served as a role model that one group of graduate students used the acronym WWAD—what would Adele do—out of admiration for her as teacher, researcher, and mentor. One described Adele's attitude toward scholarship in this way: "Take it seriously, work hard and accurately, be critical—but enjoy what you're doing and don't forget to live." Her mentoring of students takes place not only during their degree programs but continues after graduation. As a former student said, she keeps Adele's "advice at the forefront...

The Selective Shield of Due Process: Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education's 2020 Title IX Regulations on Live Cross‐Examination

AbstractThe U.S. Department of Education (DoE) released new Title IX regulations in May 2020, including the requirement that postsecondary institutions conduct live hearings with direct cross‐examination for sexual misconduct reports. The 2,033‐page document included a summary of public comments and the DoE's discussion of those comments. We analyzed this publicly available document to answer two questions. (1) What are the primary concerns of the cross‐examination requirement for victims within the Department's summary of public comments? (2) How did the Department respond to these victim concerns? We conducted a content analysis, with a specific focus on the DoE's summary of survivor‐focused comments regarding cross‐examination and the DoE's discussion of and changes made in response to those comments. We identified four overarching survivor‐focused concerns and four categories of DoE responses. Our findings suggest that the DoE did not meaningfully address survivor‐focused concerns, but instead, selectively wielded “due process” as a shield to deflect critiques and legitimize the myth that sexual misconduct allegations inherently lack “credibility.” The lack of protections for victims is a significant departure from legal norms in other settings. Our findings identify the importance of legislators working with survivor‐activists, practitioners, and researchers to ensure complainants receive adequate procedural protections.

Official Correction 133 (Opinion 2452) – Summary of Commissioners' comments amended and (Opinion 2455) – Ruling (1)(b) amended

Official Correction 133 (Opinion 2452) – Summary of Commissioners' comments amended and (Opinion 2455) – Ruling (1)(b) amended

A transdiagnostic perspective of constructs underlying obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: An international Delphi consensus study.

The Research Domain Criteria seeks to bridge knowledge from neuroscience with clinical practice by promoting research into valid neurocognitive phenotypes and dimensions, irrespective of symptoms and diagnoses as currently conceptualized. While the Research Domain Criteria offers a vision of future research and practice, its 39 functional constructs need refinement to better target new phenotyping efforts. This study aimed to determine which Research Domain Criteria constructs are most relevant to understanding obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, based on a consensus between experts in the field of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Based on a modified Delphi method, 46 experts were recruited from Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Over three rounds, experts had the opportunity to review their opinion in light of feedback from the previous round, which included how their response compared to other experts and a summary of comments given. Thirty-four experts completed round one, of whom 28 (82%) completed round two and 24 (71%) completed round three. At the final round, four constructs were endorsed by ⩾75% of experts as 'primary constructs' and therefore central to understanding obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Of these constructs, one came from the Positive Valence System (Habit), two from the Cognitive Control System (Response Selection/Inhibition and Performance Monitoring) and the final construct was an additional item suggested by experts (Compulsivity). This study identified four Research Domain Criteria constructs that, according to experts, cut across different obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. These constructs represent key areas for future investigation, and may have potential implications for clinical practice in terms of diagnostic processes and therapeutic management of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

Specifying clinical assessment schedules for the European framework of rehabilitation service types: the perspective of the physical and rehabilitation medicine Section and Board of the European Union of Medical Specialists.

In light of global mandates and in recognition of the value of data collection and reporting based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), the UEMS PRM Section and Board established an action plan to implement the ICF in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, rehabilitation and health care at large. This includes, among other steps, the development of a framework of rehabilitation service types for Europe (European Framework) and corresponding clinical assessment schedules (CLASs) for each service type. A CLAS encompasses the recommendation for what aspects of functioning to document, for whom and when, and the data collection tools to use. The objective of this paper is to report on the development of the CLASs for the European Framework developed in Stockholm in 2018, with focus on what to document. Involving UEMS PRM delegates across European regions, a multistage Delphi process comprised the development of an initial proposal of the CLASs (i.e. default and optional ICF Sets to document), two feedback (pre- and post-Stockholm) rounds via e-mail, and a deliberation by the UEMS PRM during its March 2019 meeting in Budapest. In both Delphi rounds, participants were asked whether the initially proposed default and optional ICF Sets represent what is currently documented at an exemplary service provider in the country or in consideration of their own expertise. The European Framework was revised between the two Delphi rounds, requiring a revision of the CLAS proposal accordingly. Participants were additionally asked whether they support the suggested ICF Sets as the specification of the CLAS. Level of support (strong = ≥80%, moderate = between 80-60%, weak =≤59%) was calculated as the percentage of countries supporting the suggested CLAS over the number of responding countries. The results of the post-Stockholm round were presented for discussion, revision and approval at the Budapest meeting. Pre-Stockholm Delphi round: due to low response rate only a summary of comments made by the responding countries was provided as reference information for the post-Stockholm round. Post-Stockholm Delphi round: results indicated moderate to strong support for the proposed CLASs. Deliberation Budapest Meeting - Motions for specific revisions to the CLASs based on the results of the Post-Stockholm round were predominately accepted. With additional minor revisions, the UEMS PRM General Assembly approved a version of the CLASs for the European Framework. To kick-off the implementation of these CLASs, UEMS PRM plans demonstration projects in at least one rehabilitation facility in each delegate country that exemplifies the rehabilitation service types of the European Framework which exist in the respective country. The demonstration projects are intended to orient service providers and clinicians to the CLASs and illustrate how the CLASs can be implemented.

Perfect ratings with negative comments: Learning from contradictory patient survey responses

This research explores why patients give perfect domain scores yet provide negative comments on surveys. In order to explore this phenomenon, vendor-supplied in-patient survey data from eleven different hospitals of a major U.S. health care system were utilized. The dataset included survey scores and comments from 56,900 patients, collected from January 2015 through October 2016. Of the total number of responses, 30,485 (54%) contained at least one comment. For our analysis, we use a two-step approach: a quantitative analysis on the domain scores augmented by a qualitative text analysis of patients’ comments. To focus the research, we start by building a hospital recommendation model using logistic regression that predicts a patient’s likelihood to recommend the hospital; we use this to further evaluate the top four most predictive domains. In these domains (personal issues, nurses, hospital room, and physicians), a significant percentage of patients who rated their experience with a perfect domain score left a comment categorized as not positive, thus giving rise to stark contrasts between survey scores and comments provided by patients. Within each domain, natural language analysis of patient comments shows that, despite providing perfect survey scores, patients have much to say to health care organizations about their experiences in the hospital. A summary of comments also shows that respondents provide negative comments on issues that are outside the survey domains. Results confirm that harvesting and analyzing comments from these patients is important, because much can be learned from their narratives. Implications for health care professionals and organizations are discussed.

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The value of cultural diversity: rhetoric and reality

This report is meant to summarize the discussion themes introduced in the Fellows Day session of the 9th Biennial Congress of the International Academy of Intercultural Research held in Bergen, Norway June 28, 2015. The report also attempts to summarize some of the participant comments made during the session. Because it is a report and not an original research article, descriptions of concepts are intentionally truncated and referencing is restricted to establishing context more than linking to other contemporary treatments of the issue. Further, the summary of participant comments is necessarily selective and may not reflect the complete intention of the commentator. Participant comments were for the most part informed observations or statements of opinion and are therefore not accompanied by formal references. The Fellows Day session was advertised with the following description: Practitioners of intercultural communication and cross-cultural psychology routinely make the claim that cultural diversity is an asset to teams, organizations, and societies. The more research-oriented among us quote studies that have shown correlations of creativity and heterogeneity of teams, profitability and diversity in corporations, and innovativeness and immigration in societies. These studies serve our purposes, but to what extent are they indicative of a general value of diversity? What is the research that fails to show these correlations or that suggests complex mediating factors? How do we integrate our understanding of immigrant assimilation with the preservation of ethnic diversity? How can we extend the idea of preserving diversity to the realm of mergers and acquisitions in corporations? Is the global village generating homogeneity, or is it really, as McLuhan (Understanding media: the extensions of man. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964) put it, that our neighbors will be profoundly different from us? And is that intrinsically good, or do we need to make it good? These and other questions central to our social future are appropriate for consideration by IAIR Fellows. I propose that we do so in three exploratory phases: *The first exploration is of the rhetoric: what we want to believe, what we sell, and how we support that with anecdote and ideology. I am not using "rhetoric" in a pejorative way here; I mean it more like "narrative" or "value proposition" (which is, by the way, the way the term is used by academic rhetoricians). Thus, the idea is to explore the assumptions we are making in claiming that cultural diversity is a good thing. I hope part of this conversation will position our narrative in the largely post-enlightenment, post-modern Western context that is its home, and that is will also explore how the idea of diversity has or has not emerged in other geo/historical contexts. *The second exploration is a more critical view of our claims, seeking both supportive and contradictory theory and research regarding the value of diversity and/or the value of uniformity. I don't mean to juxtapose "reality" in a positive way to "rhetoric." Rather, I mean to invoke the empirical reality of research as a tool to assess and either support or not our rhetorical claims. I hope we can include both quantitative and qualitative and both descriptive and nomothetic forms of research in our consideration, with the goal of seeing how our claims about the value of diversity stand up to systematic observation. * The third phase is reconciliatory, exploring ways to form a dialectic of diversity and unity that would provide us with a more sophisticated guide to practical action in the areas of education, corporate consulting, and intercultural training. In my practical work as a trainer and organizational development consultant, I have observed that no matter how sterling the value of diversity might be, it needs to be reconciled with the frequently more highly valued need for "unity" — shared goals, common procedures, universal policies, etc. Given our discussion of the day, how might we address both sides of this dialectic in practical, effective, and acceptable ways? In other words, where can we go from here…

Generating Intelligent Summary Terms for Improving Knowledge Discovery in Software Bug Repositories

Software bug records are stored and managed using bug tracking tools. A software bug is characterized by a number of attributes like bug id, opened date, closed date, reported by, assigned to, summary (title), description and set of comments. Summary and description are the two important attributes of a bug. Description gives the detailed information about a bug, whereas summary (title) of a bug gives a quick glance and short information about a bug. The objective of this study is to discover the relationship between description and summary attributes of a bug and to find whether summary of a bug is really the compact and intelligent information of description of a bug. This finding helps in providing a new direction for faster knowledge discovery in a bug repository. Another objective of the work is to demonstrate that intelligent summary of a bug can be generated from description of bug using topic modeling techniques. In this work, topic modeling techniques are used to generate meaningful terms for framing the bug summary of software bugs which can be utilized for faster knowledge discovery. Topic modeling techniques can be utilized efficiently for generating intelligent summary from description of a software bugs and then the knowledge discovery can be performed using the intelligent summary only since it will reduce the volume of data for knowledge discovery. To demonstrate the presented approach, experiments are performed on three popular bug repositories namely, Android, Mozilla and MySql. Comparative analysis is carried using various performance parameters and in order to analyze the impact of present work, two knowledge discovery tasks namely, bug classification and duplicate bug identification are presented in this study.

A medical collaboration network for medical image analysis

Nowadays, patients are often in a hurry to know their analysis and concise explanations their medical images pending the doctor’s decision. Most of the time, doctors can make mistakes leading to unpredictable damage in patients. In order to minimize medical errors by fostering collaboration between physicians and/or patients, we propose in this paper, as a first contribution, a medical social network destined to gather patients’ medical images and physicians’ annotations expressing their medical reviews and advice. As the volume of comments is very important, analysis of opinions becomes an impossible task and requires automatic processing to extract relevant information collected from the comments of specialists. For this purpose, we propose a second contribution of producing summaries of comments containing most current conditions and relevant words prescribed by doctors. Furthermore, this extracted information will present a new and robust input for image indexation enhanced methods. In fact, significant extracted terms will be used later to index images in order to facilitate their search through the underlying social network. To overcome the above challenges, we propose an approach which focuses on algorithms mainly based on statistical methods and external semantic resources destined to filter selected extracts information.

The Fukushima Daiichi accident‒summary of comments and lessons from the report by the director general

国際原子力機関(IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency)は，東日本大震災に伴う福島第一原子力発電所事故につき約3年間の調査を行い，2015年8月31日に事務局長報告書(The Fukushima Daiichi Accident ‒ The Report by the Director General)を公表した。これには福島第一原子力発電所事故と安全に関わる評価，緊急時の備えと対応，放射線の影響，事故後の復旧，及びこれらに関するIAEAとしての所見と教訓が記されている。

Summary of Comments on the European Commission Green Paper 'Building a Capital Markets Union'

European SMEs rely predominantly on bank credit to fund investment and operating capital, with direct lending markets (bonds) and equity markets both underdeveloped across the EU compared to the US and the UK, as well as other jurisdictions. In addition, there has been a significant decline in investment during the current crisis (from 2007-2008 through present). In its Green Paper, the EU Commission sets key targets for policy interventions under the proposed Capital markets Union (CMU) that are both well-intentioned and occasionally contradictory to the stated objectives of the reforms. Crucially, however, the EU Commission presents no substantive case for the main thesis that underlies its proposed reforms, namely that greater degree of capital markets harmonisation is needed to alter the composition of sources of funding for European SMEs and to increase supply of liquidity and funding to the sector. This problem is compounded by the lack of detailed analysis of the potential impact of the measures underpinning the creation of the CMU. Absent clarity and standard risk-return analytics to support any of the policy priorities and/or proposals under the CMU, the EU Commission appears to be cherry picking specific priorities relating to investment to suit its case in favour of the CMU, without considering any other priorities, including those that should form a basis for more efficient and more effective first-best reforms.

Thoughts on developing small/medium size no-till equipment for conservation agriculture in Asia: summary of post-publication peer review comments.

Traditional agriculture bases most of its operations or practices on soil tillage, which causes likely occurrence of water and soil erosion and sediment runoff. In order to conserve soil, water and environment, Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly adopted to replace traditional tillage agriculture to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture and subsequently improve the livelihoods of farmers. CA holds great potential for all sizes of farms and agro-ecological systems, but its adoption is most urgently required by smallholder farmers, especially those short of laborers. Small/medium size no-till machines and implements are the key to CA adoption. A review article on small/medium size no/minimum-till seeders in Asia published in IJABE triggers a lot of scientific conversation on how to develop suitable no-till equipment among peer experts. This paper presents a collection of these post-publication peer review comments including commentary, questions, answers, suggestions, critical thinking, etc. The authors of the review article also provide response, summary of the review comments and their own standpoints. This open post-publication review and commentary may add value to the published review article and provide new ideas useful for future research and development of CA equipment. Keywords: conservation agriculture, conservation tillage, no-till equipment, post-publication peer review DOI: 10.3965/j.ijabe.20140705.16 Citation: He J, Li H W, Wang Y K, Zhang Z Q, Wang Q J. Thoughts on developing small/medium size no-till equipment for conservation agriculture in Asia: Summary of post-publication peer review comments. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2014; 7(5): 139－146.

Zanamivir for influenza in adults and children: systematic review of clinical study reports and summary of regulatory comments

Objectives To describe the potential benefits and harms of zanamivir.Design Systematic review of clinical study reports of randomised placebo controlled trials and regulatory informationData sources Clinical study reports, trial registries,...

Oseltamivir for influenza in adults and children: systematic review of clinical study reports and summary of regulatory comments

Objective To describe the potential benefits and harms of oseltamivir by reviewing all clinical study reports (or similar document when no clinical study report exists) of randomised placebo controlled trials...