The Randomized Controlled Trial Gets a Middle-aged Checkup
- 28 January 1998
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 279 (4) , 319-320
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.279.4.319
Abstract
Although the first controlled trial in health care is thought to have occurred at least 3 centuries ago, the modern era of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)Keywords
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