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Equipoise in action: A qualitative synthesis of clinicians’ practices across six randomised controlled trials
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Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evidence-based medicine, and increasingly rely on front-line clinicians to recruit eligible patients. Clinicians’ difficulties with negotiating equipoise is assumed to undermine recruitment, although these issues have not yet been empirically investigated in the context of observable events. We aimed to investigate how clinicians conveyed equipoise during RCT recruitment consultations across six RCTs, with a view to...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002147
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e1002147
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-16
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1549-1676
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- 2016
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- © 2016 Rooshenas et al. 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 credited.
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