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Blinding in trials of interventional procedures is possible and worthwhile
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In this paper, we have used evidence from our earlier review of surgical randomised controlled trials with a placebo arm to show that blinding in trials of interventional procedures is feasible, and that many creative methods can be used to make the active and the placebo procedure as similar as possible. We give examples of ingenious strategies used to simulate the active procedure and make the placebo control indistinguishable from the active treatment. We discuss why it is important to bli...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.12688/f1000research.12528.2
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National Institute for Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- F1000Research Publisher's website
- Journal:
- F1000 Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1663
- Pages:
- 1-16
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-30
- DOI:
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2046-1402
- Source identifiers:
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726025
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:726025
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uuid:c48f247d-77a3-429e-a6df-24be069502be
- Local pid:
- pubs:726025
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-08
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- Copyright holder:
- © 2018 Wartolowska, Beard, and Carr
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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