Clinical equipoise and personal equipoise: Two necessary ingredients for reducing bias in manual therapy trials

Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-57

  Cook, Chad ^a   Sheets, Charles ^b  

^a WALSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Clinical equipoise; Manual therapy; Personal equipoise

Indexed keywords

EQUIPOISE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 79952411078     PISSN: 10669817     EISSN: 20426186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/106698111X12899036752014     Document Type: Review

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