What is a randomised controlled trial?

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-194

  Cipriani, Andrea ^a   Geddes, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blinding; Meta analysis; Randomization; Randomized controlled trial; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 75549088705     PISSN: 1121189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x00000452     Document Type: Article

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