Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Jadad, Alejandro R ^a,b,c   Moore, R Andrew ^a,b   Carroll, Dawn ^a,b   Jenkinson, Crispin ^a   Reynolds, D John M ^a   Gavaghan, David J ^b   McQuay, Henry J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

health technology assessment; meta analysis; pain; quality; randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION;

EID: 0029914622     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0197-2456(95)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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