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Randomised Controlled Trials

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Paper2010

CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials

Kenneth F. Schulz, Douglas G. Altman & David Moher

Sets a minimum checklist for reporting a randomised trial, arguing that incomplete reporting of allocation and blinding makes trials that were actually well designed look indistinguishable from ones that were not.

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Paper2018

Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials

Angus Deaton & Nancy Cartwright

Argues that randomisation balances covariates only on average across hypothetical repetitions of a trial, not in the single trial actually run, so an RCT result needs the same theoretical scaffolding as any other estimate before it generalises.

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Reading on Randomised Controlled Trials

CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomised Trials

Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials

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