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Critical appraisal of treatment studies. Guidelines for critical appraisal of treatment studies are given, being the randomized clinical trial the most frequent design.
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Randomized clinical trial. The components of parallel randomized clinical trial are described, as well as the most common design variants (crossover, sequential, community trials).
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Re-randomization in clinical trials. Re-randomization is the ability to randomize trial participants on more than one occasion, useful when large samples are required.
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Factorial clinical trial. Factorial clinical trial allows testing more than one intervention with only one sample of participants. The clinical trial is the king of epidemiological designs. But it is also the most expensive to perform. And, in our times,…
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Cluster clinical trials. Cluster clinical trials are randomized trials in which the unit of randomization is not the individual, but groups of individuals.