EBMH Notebook 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. Thus, readers will have additional information by which to judge the internal validity of trials. In this edit...

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EBM notebook 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 editori...

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EBN notebook Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

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EBN notebook Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

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EBN notebook Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

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EBMH Notebook Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled trials: why bother?

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