“Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs” (2016), by Laura E. Bothwell et al. Arts and Humanities research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.
Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs
Laura E. Bothwell, Jeremy A. Greene, Scott H. Podolsky et al. · June 1, 2016 · Arts and Humanities
Abstract
Randomized, controlled trials have become the gold standard of medical knowledge. Yet their scientific and political history offers lessons about the complexity of medicine and disease and the economic and political forces shaping the production and circulation of knowledge.
Source page DOI: 10.1056/nejmms1604593
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