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Review
. 2005 Jan 8;330(7482):88.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7482.88.

Need for expertise based randomised controlled trials

P J Devereaux  1 , Mohit Bhandari, Mike Clarke, Victor M Montori, Deborah J Cook, Salim Yusuf, David L Sackett, Claudio S Cinà, S D Walter, Brian Haynes, Holger J Schünemann, Geoffrey R Norman, Gordon H Guyatt
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Need for expertise based randomised controlled trials

P J Devereaux et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Surgical procedures are less likely to be rigorously evidence based than drug treatments because of difficulties with randomisation. Expertise based trials could be the way forward

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Differential expertise bias in a conventional randomised controlled trial in which 70% of surgeons are expert in procedure A and 30% in procedure B
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