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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-10-01
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Series: | Trials |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05403-5 |