Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?
Open Access
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
- Vol. 5 (2) , 36-38
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.5.2.36
Abstract
Random allocation to intervention groups remains the only method of ensuring that the groups being compared are on an equivalent footing at study outset, thus eliminating selection and confounding biases. This technique has allowed RCTs to play a key role in advancing medical science.Keywords
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