Allocation of patients to treatment groups in a controlled clinical study
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- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 37 (5) , 849-857
- https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1978.124
Abstract
In a controlled clinical study ("clinical trial") to compare 2 or more treatments for a disease, an objective method of allocating patients to treatment groups is needed. Various existing methods of allocation are described, including those which take account of patients' pre-treatment characteristics.Keywords
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