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Casting and drawing lots: a time honoured way of dealing with uncertainty and ensuring fairness.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 1: presumption and confusion on the road to randomisation.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2026Article
- Identifying experts for clinical practice guidelines: perspectives from the ASH Guideline Oversight Subcommittee.Blood advances · 2023Article
- Is there a social cost of randomization?Social choice and welfare · 2019Article
- The advent of fair treatment allocation schedules in clinical trials during the 19th and early 20th centuries.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2012Article
- Uncertainty and equipoise: at interplay between epistemology, decision making and ethics.The American journal of the medical sciences · 2011Article
- Why the 1948 MRC trial of streptomycin used treatment allocation based on random numbers.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2011Article
- The paradox of equipoise: the principle that drives and limits therapeutic discoveries in clinical research.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center · 2009Article
- Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment: paradox exists in dealing with uncertainty.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004Article
- Evaluating the health effects of social interventions.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004Article
- Acknowledgment of uncertainty: a fundamental means to ensure scientific and ethical validity in clinical research.Current oncology reports · 2001Article
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