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Blinding

Blinding is a methodological safeguard in experimental design that distinguishes itself by concealing treatment allocation from participants, researchers, or outcome assessors to prevent systematic bias in the estimation of treatment effects.

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Empirical Evidence of Bias

Kenneth F. Schulz · JAMA · 1995 · 5.5K citations

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Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

Lesley J. Wood, Matthias Egger, Lise Lotte Gluud et al. · BMJ · 2008 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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Reported Methodologic Quality and Discrepancies between Large and Small Randomized Trials in Meta-Analyses

Lise Lotte Kjaergard, John Villumsen, Christian Gluud · Annals of Internal Medicine · 2001 · 2.3K citations

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A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research

Story C. Landis, Susan Amara, Khusru Asadullah et al. · Nature · 2012 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Influence of Reported Study Design Characteristics on Intervention Effect Estimates From Randomized, Controlled Trials

Jelena Savović, Hayley E. Jones, Douglas G. Altman et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine · 2012 · 1.1K citations

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  1. AH
    Asbjørn Hróbjartsson

    Cochrane, Denmark

    7 publications · 961 citations

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  2. DG
    Douglas G. Altman

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 4.6K citations

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  3. KF
    Kenneth F. Schulz

    Family Health International 360, United States

    7 publications · 10.4K citations

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  4. HY
    Hiroyoshi Yajima

    Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Japan

    6 publications · 239 citations

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  5. NT
    Nobuari Takakura

    Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Japan

    6 publications · 239 citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    20 h-index

    47 publications

    5.1K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    73 publications

    3.3K citations

  3. Inserm

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    61 publications

    4.8K citations

  4. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    16 h-index

    43 publications

    2.1K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    15 h-index

    34 publications

    5.3K citations

  6. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    14 h-index

    47 publications

    6.7K citations

  7. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    14 h-index

    31 publications

    2.4K citations

  8. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    14 h-index

    51 publications

    6.9K citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 54 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. PLoS ONE

    19 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. Scientific Reports

    16 publications · 1K citations

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  4. Journal of physiotherapy

    14 publications · 920 citations

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  5. JAMA

    15 publications · 8.1K citations

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