Year: 2000
Type: editorial
Abstract: Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?The scientific community's quest for unbiased research received a strong boost from a recent policy amendment on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in this journal.Henceforth, the status of allocation concealment will be clearly indicated in the abstracts along with that of blinding, so readers will have additional information by which to judge the internal validity of trials.In this editorial, I address the background of and rationale for these enhancements.
Source: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
DOI: 10.1136/ebm.5.2.36
Author: K. F Schulz
Institution: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4239520201