The use of a placebo run-in phase, in which placebo responders are withdrawn from a study before random assignment to treatment condition, has been criticized as favoring the active treatment in clinical trials. We compared the effect size of randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials (in the tr
Means, responders, and meaning: Evaluation of clinical trials in osteoarthritis
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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