Basic principles of randomised trials, and validity

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• Format Lessons
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration 5-15 mins
• Difficulty Intermediate

Key Concepts addressed

• 2-1a Comparison groups should be similar
• 2-1c Comparison groups should be treated equally
• 2-1d People should not know which treatment they get
• 1-2e Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects

Details

Module 3a of the introduction to the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine produced by the Evidence-Based Medicine Unity funded through the Leonardo da Vinci programme of the European Union.