Random guess and wishful thinking are the best blinding scenarios
Blinding is a methodologic safeguard of treatment evaluation, yet severely understudied empirically. Mathieu et al.'s theoretical analysis (2014) provided an important message that blinding cannot eliminate potential for bias associated with belief about allocation in randomized controlled tria...
Main Author: | Heejung Bang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-08-01
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Series: | Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245186541530065X |
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