Example sentences for: rct
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Statistical information from an RCT is virtually uninterpretable and meaningless if stripped away from the backdrop of our basic understanding of physiology and biochemistry.
A previous SR served as a basis for location of the articles of interest [ 5 ] . We also performed a search of MEDLINE, LILACS and CANCERLIT databases, last update in July of 2001, using the optimal search strategy for RCT for use in MEDLINE [ 10 ] and LILACS [ 11 ] with the additional terms related to this review - (epoetin OR Erythropoietin) and (cancer OR neoplasm), in all fields.
Although it is specifically aimed at RCT's, it could be adapted to other types of studies.
Acceptable papers were limited to RCT's in the first and second articles.
Of course, in an RCT, we place restrictions on the way data are gathered: we require that there be a control group of patients who do not receive the target experimental therapy, and that patients are randomly assigned to either the control or experimental group; we typically 'blind' researchers (and other participants), by not allowing them to know, during the course of the study, which patients are in the control group; and we blind the patients themselves, so that they do not know which therapy they received.
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