Commentary: Measuring the success of blinding in RCTs: don't, must, can't or needn't? - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Commentary: Measuring the success of blinding in RCTs: don't, must, can't or needn't?

David L Sackett. Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun.

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