Basic principles of randomised trials, and validity

Format: Lessons

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Language/s: English

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Resource Link: View the Lesson

Target Audience: Postgraduate and professional

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Undergraduate

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Short Description:

A 8-min talk on ‘Basic principles of Randomised Trials, and Validity’, illustrated by 15 slides, with notes.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-1 Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects
• 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar
• 2-4 Comparison groups should be treated equally
• 2-5 People should not know which treatment they get

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.