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Aug 21
6 min

Brave New World of Health Care Consumerism, N-of-1, and Character of Health Type

Author: Browning Rockwell, WeWa.life The ICN is a noncommercial entity that receives no funding and is run by volunteers. The ICN...

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Jun 30
5 min

Implementing Single-Case Designs in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Trials

Authors: Joanne Bradbury and Sandra Grace In many ways, N-of-1 trials are well-suited to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)...

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May 31
4 min

Who Will Benefit from Which Diet: Can N-of-1 Studies Fill a Gap in the Care of Adult PKU?

Authors: Maria Depenweiller, Kathryn Moseley, Kirsten Ahring, Ash Morgan Chambers & Annie Prince In phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare...

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Mar 30
5 min

Will the Real Mr. Average Please Stand Up?

Authors: Anne MacGregor & Alec Mian We can easily recognize the face of someone we know from thousands if not millions of other humans....

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Nov 30, 2020
4 min

N-of-1 Trials are Valuable Scientific Methods for Precision Medicine

Authors: Suzanne McDonald, James McGree & Jane Nikles We were interested to see the reference to N-of-1 trials in the article by...

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Oct 31, 2020
4 min

Creating Evidence from Real World Patient Digital Data

Authors: Jane Nikles, Eric J. Daza, Suzanne McDonald, Eric Hekler and Nicholas Schork The number of published N-of-1 articles has doubled...

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Jun 29, 2020
5 min

N-of-1 Trials in Practice: A Training Program for Complementary Medicine Practitioners

Dr Joanne Bradbury and Professor Sandra Grace discuss a training program for complementary medicine practitioners

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May 31, 2020
3 min

Progress Towards Priorities for the International Collaborative Network for N-of-1 Trials and SCDs

Describes progress towards priorities for the ICN

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Jan 30, 2020
3 min

Visualization of Individual Data: A Powerful Tool in Personalized Medicine

Authors: Kenneth Shulman, Amparo Casanova & Marina Vives-Metres

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Sep 30, 2019
3 min

Going Paperless: How Digital Technology Can Shape the Field of N-of-1 Trials

Authors: Samuel Tan, Farhad Fatehi, Steve Donoghue and Sandy Bodner

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Aug 30, 2019
3 min

N-of-1 Trials in CAM: The New Frontier for Generating Practice-Based Evidence?

Authors: Dr Joanne Bradbury, Prof Sandra Grace and Dr Cathy Avila A system of healthcare that does not recognise traditional...

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May 31, 2019
2 min

The Rare Disease Registry and Analytics Platform: Paving the way forward for N-of-1 trials

Authors: Dr James McGree and Samuel Tan Progress towards a global rare disease registry An MTPConnect funded project is currently...

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Apr 30, 2019
4 min

Is There a Role for N-of-1 Trials in Nutrition Research?

Author: Dr Veronique Chachay As a key component of evidence-based healthcare, nutrition research provides insight into a number of...

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Mar 31, 2019
3 min

Evaluation of a Physical Activity Intervention for Individuals with Whiplash Associated Disorders

Authors: Dr Carrie Ritchie, Dr Kelly Clanchy, Dr Sean Tweedy, Dr Melissa Day, A/Prof. Jane Nikles, Prof. Robyn Tate, Prof. Michele...

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Feb 28, 2019
4 min

Using N-of-1 Trials to Identify Responders to Melatonin for Sleep Disturbance in Parkinson's Disease

Study in progress! Authors: Dr Jane Nikles, A/Prof. John O’Sullivan, Prof. Geoff Mitchell, Dr Alex Ritchie, A/Prof. Simon Smith, Dr Hugh...

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Jan 31, 2019
3 min

Effect of mexiletine on muscle stiffness in nondystrophic myotonia: aggregated N-of-1 trials

Full title: Effect of mexiletine on muscle stiffness in patients with nondystrophic myotonia evaluated using aggregated N-of-1 trials: a...

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Dec 31, 2018
3 min

10 key take-home messages from an expert workshop on single-case methodology

Author: Dr Suzanne McDonald Single-case (or ‘n-of-1’) methodology provides researchers and clinicians with a flexible and rigorous...

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Nov 30, 2018
3 min

Personalised treatments for acute whiplash injuries: A pilot study

Authors: Dr Jane Nikles and Sherin Jacob Study summary WORK IN PROGRESS! We are applying Bayesian modelling of prior data for a...

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Oct 31, 2018
1 min

A spotlight on… Associate Professor James McGree

I’m James McGree, an Associate Professor of Statistics at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and the ICN...

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Aug 31, 2018
3 min

A Rationale for N-of-1 trials

Author: Samuel Tan Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) first rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, heralded as a systematic,...

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