What’s the shelf life of a randomised controlled trial?
A study has tracked the likelihood of evidence being superseded over 17 years
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24th September 2021
In these days of evidence-based medicine, you can’t do much better than a well-designed, double-blind, randomised controlled trial (RCT).
It is the staple ingredient of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that we use to make sense of the burgeoning medical literature, hopefully distilling data into digestible bites that can inform clinical practice.
