Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?

It has been suggested that the quality of clinical trials should be assessed by blinded raters to limit the risk of introducing bias into meta-analyses and systematic reviews, and into the peer-review process. There is very little evidence in the literature to substantiate this. This study describes...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jadad, A, Moore, R, Carroll, D, Jenkinson, C, Reynolds, D, Gavaghan, D, McQuay, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1996