# Assessing the Gold Standard — Lessons from the History of RCTs

“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.

- Authors: Laura E. Bothwell, Jeremy A. Greene, Scott H. Podolsky, David Shumway Jones
- Published: June 1, 2016
- Field: Arts and Humanities
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms1604593
- Source: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms1604593

## 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.

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