The challenge of equipoise in trials with a surgical and non-surgical comparison: a qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography

Abstract Background Randomised controlled trials in surgery can be a challenge to design and conduct, especially when including a non-surgical comparison. As few as half of initiated surgical trials reach their recruitment target, and failure to recruit is cited as the most frequent reason for prema...

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Main Authors: Loretta Davies, David Beard, Jonathan A. Cook, Andrew Price, Ida Osbeck, Francine Toye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05403-5