[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12769-12770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5767]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Announcement of Workshop on Control/Comparison Groups for Trials of
Non-Pharmacologic Interventions
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM) invites the public to participate at a Workshop on the choice
of control and comparison groups for trials of non-pharmacological
interventions (NPI). The purpose of this workshop is to review the
strengths and weaknesses of the various control/comparison groups used
in studies of NPI and the most appropriate use of these control/
comparison groups. This workshop will be divided into six sessions that
will feature presentations and discussions focusing on the selection of
a particular control/comparison group(s) for a given research question.
The first session will provide case studies from the NPI literature,
while the remainder will address the choice of control/comparison
groups when researching the following questions: What is/are the major
active component(s) of the NPI? What is/are the major effective
mechanism(s) of the NPI? Does this NPI work at all? Is this NPI as good
as (or better than) some other intervention? Does this NPI improve
standard-of-care?
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The Workshop will take place on April 26-27, 2010 in Rockville,
Maryland. Seating is limited.
Background: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM) was established in 1998 with the mission of exploring
complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of
rigorous science, training CAM researchers, and disseminating
authoritative information to the public and professionals.
To date, NCCAM's efforts to rigorously study CAM, to train CAM
researchers, and to communicate with the public and professionals, have
been guided by NCCAM's previous strategic plans, located on the NCCAM
Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov/about/plans.
The Workshop will take place on April 26-27, 2010 in Rockville,
Maryland. Seating is limited.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information, visit the
NCCAM Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov, call Edward Culhane at 301-594-
3391, or e-mail [email protected].
Dated: March 9, 2010.
Richard Nahin,
Senior Advisor for Scientific Coordination and Outreach, National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes
of Health.
[FR Doc. 2010-5767 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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