Randomized controlled trials: Often flawed, mostly useless, clearly indispensable: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

Volume: 210, Pages: 53 - 56
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Abstract
For millennia, <-- -->medicine was empirical and dominated by beliefs, dogmas and sorcery. Evidence-based medicine then emerged over the last two centuries as a major source of progress towards enlightened clinical practice. Yet, the design of randomized clinical trials and observational studies and, even more so, their methods of data collection and analyses, and the way they are presented in the media, have become sources of important...
Paper Details
Title
Randomized controlled trials: Often flawed, mostly useless, clearly indispensable: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright
Published Date
Aug 1, 2018
Volume
210
Pages
53 - 56
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