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Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial

A prospective randomized clinical trial (RCT) is an experimental study in which participants are assigned to intervention or control groups by chance before any outcomes are observed, then followed forward in time. Random allocation eliminates systematic selection bias, making this design the gold standard for establishing causal efficacy of treatments in medicine and clinical research.

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Prospective Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / epidemiology
  • Medical Research Council (1948). Streptomycin treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a Medical Research Council investigation. British Medical Journal, 2(4582), 769–782. · URL
  • Schulz, K. F., Altman, D. G., & Moher, D. (2010). CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. BMJ, 340, c332. · DOI 10.1136/bmj.c332
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Taxonomic bucketAdaptive Randomized Clinical Trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCohort Studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketPhase III clinical trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketPragmatic randomized clinical trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketRandomized clinical trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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