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The Emergence of the Randomized, Controlled Trial

New England Journal of MedicinePublished 10 August 2016
Laura E. Bothwell, Scott H. Podolsky
Citations196
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score19.08
SNIP13.47

TL;DR

Randomized, controlled trials date back much farther than is usually recognized, and their history offers insights into the intellectual and social forces shaping what would become a medical research standard and a mechanism for taming the therapeutic marketplace.

Abstract

Dr. Scott Podolsky on the evolution of the essential methods of randomized, controlled trials. (08:07)Download Randomized, controlled trials date back much farther than is usually recognized, and their history offers insights into the intellectual and social forces shaping what would become a medical research standard and a mechanism for taming the therapeutic marketplace.

Keywords

Medicine