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Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health”
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can and do make valuable contributions, they also have severe limitations, including in answering the basic question of “Does it work?” and, even more so, in steering how to proceed with complex public health programming at scale. They deserve no exalted pos...
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Global Health: Science and Practice
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745129 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00045 |
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description | While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can and do make valuable contributions, they also have severe limitations, including in answering the basic question of “Does it work?” and, even more so, in steering how to proceed with complex public health programming at scale. They deserve no exalted position in the pantheon of methodologies for evidence-based public health. |
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spelling | pubmed-43562842015-03-13 Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” Shelton, James D Glob Health Sci Pract Taking Exception While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can and do make valuable contributions, they also have severe limitations, including in answering the basic question of “Does it work?” and, even more so, in steering how to proceed with complex public health programming at scale. They deserve no exalted position in the pantheon of methodologies for evidence-based public health. Global Health: Science and Practice 2015-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4356284/ /pubmed/25745129 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00045 Text en © Shelton. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00045. |
spellingShingle | Taking Exception Shelton, James D Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title | Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title_full | Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title_fullStr | Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title_full_unstemmed | Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title_short | Response to “A False Dichotomy: RCTs and Their Contributions to Evidence-Based Public Health” |
title_sort | response to “a false dichotomy: rcts and their contributions to evidence-based public health” |
topic | Taking Exception |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745129 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00045 |
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