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Evaluating treatments in health care: The instability of a one-legged stool

BACKGROUND: Both scientists and the public routinely refer to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as being the 'gold standard' of scientific evidence. Although there is no question that placebo-controlled RCTs play a significant role in the evaluation of new pharmaceutical treatments, espe...

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Autores principales: Kaplan, Bonnie J, Giesbrecht, Gerald, Shannon, Scott, McLeod, Kevin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-65