So now I'm still confused. https://www.nice.org.uk/glossary?letter=r Is this saying that a comparison group and control group are different...
Ah - now I get it. Randomised Circle-jerk Trials.
Interesting, then, that the 2011 PACE paper only claimed "(PACE): a randomised trial", and not a controlled trial, having backed off from their...
I still think that if there is no binding definition of what a Controlled trial actually is, then it is open season for the snake oil brigade to...
This feels very important to me, because quacks all over the place are pushing their remedies, supposedly backed up by RCTs, when in fact the...
Yes, when I said "listing all sources of biases that trials are known to be prone to", I really should have said "listing all types of biases that...
I know much of this is old hat, but just wanted to revisit, with a particular thought in mind. Possibly in the wrong thread, in which case mods...
Presumably there would been all manner of unhelpful traits (couldn't resist that :) ) which ancestors to Homo sapiens will have had.
Excellent! :)
OK, sorry for being pedantic. It's just that in the past I've been caught out occasionally. Hopefully they will provide an acknowledgement before...
I do love this bit ...
Huge sincere thanks to the team for putting this together. Superb.
Have we received an acknowledgement of its receipt?
I think @Brian Hughes blog maybe should have also made the point, as made by @Jonathan Edwards at times, that where blinding truly is impossible,...
So Wade states it is not possible, then immediately follows up with examples illustrating it is. Just because he may not know at the time which it...
Maybe more to do with who was on the Covid guideline committee?
Interestingly, although I appreciate this is not the Covid 19 guideline itself, this document, "Management of the long-term effects of COVID-19,...
Read somewhere that Stokes is on the committee for the Covid 19 guideline - is that correct? If so then she would be heavily involved in rapid...
This seems quite sneaky. The BMJ very carefully qualifies that they judge there to be no disqualifying financial ties. And they carefully point...
If this were true then clinical trials would often be unnecessary, and we could just take the word of those in clinical practice. Probably akin to...
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