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What is a randomised controlled trial?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Andrea Cipriani  and
John R. Geddes
Andrea Cipriani*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona(Italy)
John R. Geddes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. A. Cipriani, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, PiazzaleL.A. Scuro 10, 37134 Verona (Italy). Fax: +39-045-8027498 E-mail: andrea.cipriani@univr.it
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Keywords

Randomized controlled trialmeta-analysisstatisticsrandomizationblinding

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ABC of Methodology
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 191 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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