Blinded trials taken to the test: an analysis of randomized clinical trials that report tests for the success of blinding

A Hróbjartsson; E Forfang; M T Haahr; B Als-Nielsen; S Brorson

doi:10.1093/ije/dym020

Blinded trials taken to the test: an analysis of randomized clinical trials that report tests for the success of blinding

A Hróbjartsson, E Forfang, M T Haahr, B Als-Nielsen, S Brorson

Abstract

Blinding can reduce bias in randomized clinical trials, but blinding procedures may be unsuccessful. Our aim was to assess how often randomized clinical trials test the success of blinding, the methods involved and how often blinding is reported as being successful.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	36
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	654-63
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0300-5771
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym020
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Bias (Epidemiology), Double-Blind Method, Humans, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Research Design, Statistics as Topic

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Blinded trials taken to the test: an analysis of randomized clinical trials that report tests for the success of blinding

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