The concepts, design, practice and reports of allocation concealment and blinding

Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 222-225

  Wu, Tai Xiang ^a   Liu, Gua Jian ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allocation concealment; Blinding; Practice; Report

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

EID: 34047231854     PISSN: 16722531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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