Participants in research
BMJPublished 19 May 2005Open access
David L. Sackett
Citations30
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Neither guinea pigs nor sacrificial lambs, but pointers to better health care patients rightly worry that they risk being sacrificed in randomised trials whose results cannot be applied by clinicians in the front lines of real clinical practice.
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