[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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