ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2013
UK Medical Research Council and multicentre clinical trials: from a damning report to international recognition.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2013. 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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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Richard Cabot, pair-matched random allocation, and the attempt to compare like with like in the social sciences and medicine. Part 2: the context of medicine and public health.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2021Article
- Textbooks and other publications on controlled clinical trials, 1948 to 1983.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2019Article
- John Guyett Scadding's scepticism and pragmatism in addressing treatment uncertainties in clinical practice.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2018Article
- Inverting the patient involvement paradigm: defining patient led research.Research involvement and engagement · 2018Article
- Major Greenwood and clinical trials.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2017Article
- 'Pragmatic' and 'explanatory' attitudes to randomised trials.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2017Article
- Why the MRC therapeutic trials committee did not introduce controlled clinical trials.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2015Article
- The Medical Research Council and treatments for tuberculosis before streptomycin.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2014Article
- The certainty of death and the uncertainty of treatments.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2013Article
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