ArticleBritish dental journal2019
The role of the randomised controlled trial in restorative dentistry and the correct purpose of observational data.
Article in British dental journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The Composite Quality Score (CQS) as a trial appraisal tool: inter-rater reliability and rating time.Clinical oral investigations · 2021Article
- Global Dental Publications in PubMed Databases between 2009 and 2019-A Bibliometric Analysis.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
It has been argued that the randomised controlled trial design is unsuitable for restorative dentistry and that cohort studies or the analysis of large observational datasets without randomisation is more suitable. This opinion article examines why randomisation in clinical trials is needed and why big observational data is not enough for clinical inference.
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