Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn't: 1. Failure to gain "coal-face" commitment and to use the uncertainty principle From the undersideMy pager went off as I was half-dozing, half-reading the newspaper. Yuri Gagarin, born the same year as me, had just become the first man to orbit the earth; Nelson Mandela, not yet ...

This week's reading and learning: Dave Sackett's essay from 25 years ago on why not gaining "coal-face" commitment and not using the uncertainty principle can lead to the failure of randomised trials
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Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn't: 1. Failure to gain "coal-face" commitment and to use the uncertainty principle

Something to read this week that's as relevant today as it was when Dave Sackett wrote it 25 years ago: Why randomized controlled trials fail but needn't: Failure to gain "coal-face" commitment and to use the uncertainty principle www.cmaj.ca/content/162/... #ReadAboutTrials #RCT #EBHC #EBM