POINT: Do Randomized Controlled Trials Ignore Needed Patient Populations? Yes
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Medical providers may be using information that is not relevant to their individual client.
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Randomized controlled trial medical studies may not consistently represent the patients served in healthcare settings.
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- Authors
- Courtright, K.
- Affiliations
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Courtright, Katherine
- Venue
- Chest
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1128-1130
- ISSN
- 0012-3692 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2345789392
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2016: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- CHEST Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
- Keywords
- randomized controlled trials, evidence-based medicine, patient representativeness, clinical trial recruitment, generalizability of trial results, community patients, healthcare quality and safety
- MeSH terms
- Female, Humans, Male, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Critical Illness, Patient Selection, Evidence-Based Medicine
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