Factors That Can Affect the External Validity of Randomised Controlled Trials
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- 19 May 2006
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- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Clinical Trials
- Vol. 1 (1), e9
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pctr.0010009
Abstract
Citation: Rothwell, P. M. (2006). 'Factors that can affect the external validity of randomised controlled trials' PLoS Clinical Trials, 1(1): e9. [Available at http://clinicaltrials.ploshubs.org]. Copyright 2006 Peter M. Rothwell. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedKeywords
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