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‘Allocation concealment’: the evolution and adoption of a methodological term
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Random assignment of individual participants in clinical trials entails two steps: (i) generating an unbiased treatment allocation schedule; and (ii) applying the schedule without foreknowledge of upcoming allocations. These two steps were implicit in the famous randomized trial of streptomycin for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1948, and were recognized explicitly in some early books on controlled trials. However, half a century later, no widely accepted term denoting the process of concealing up...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted Manuscript
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- 10.1177/0141076818776604
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 111
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 216-224
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-20
- DOI:
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1758-1095
- ISSN:
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0141-0768
- Pubs id:
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pubs:827958
- URN:
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uri:c8aa0d2a-0032-4465-b27a-76a063441aec
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uuid:c8aa0d2a-0032-4465-b27a-76a063441aec
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- Copyright holder:
- Schluz et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0141076818776604 The article was originally published in the James Lind Library: Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Altman DG, Grimes DA, Moher D, Hayes RJ (2018). 'Allocation concealment': the evolution and adoption of a methodological term, http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/allocation-concealment-evolution-adoption-methodological-term/
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