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Randomized Controlled Trial

A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

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A work that reports on a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.

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this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific randomized controlled trial; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of randomized controlled trials

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2008(1991)

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  1. V03.175.250.500.500

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Randomized Controlled Trial. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016449. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016449
  2. Randomized Controlled Trial. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130616270