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Who knew? The misleading specificity of “double-blind” and what to do about it

BACKGROUND: In randomized trials, the term “double-blind” (and its derivatives, single- and triple-blind, fully blind, and partially blind or masked) has no standard or widely accepted definition. Agreement about which groups are blinded is poor, and authors using these terms often do not identify w...

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Autores principales: Lang, Thomas A., Stroup, Donna F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32758278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04607-5