The importance of allocation concealment and patient blinding in osteoarthritis trials: a meta-epidemiologic study.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of adequate allocation concealment and patient blinding with estimates of treatment benefits in osteoarthritis trials. METHODS: We performed a meta-epidemiologic study of 16 meta-analyses with 175 trials that compared therapeutic interventions with placebo or n...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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