All excerpted posts are © the original author. Please consult their blog for the full story and to comment.

rampant

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

The de-randomised clinical trial (dRCT): how we might be fooled by seemingly rigorous research

Controlled clinical trials are methods for testing whether a treatment works better than whatever the control group is treated with (placebo, a standard therapy, or nothing at all). In order to minimise bias, they ought to be randomised. This means that the allocation of patients to the experimental and the control group must not be […]

Read the rest here: The de-randomised clinical trial (dRCT): how we might be fooled by seemingly rigorous research