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The history and fate of the gold standard
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jones, D. S., & Podolsky, S. H.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Podolsky, Scott H
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 385
- Issue
- 9977
- Pages
- 1502-1503
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W1964472634
- Cited by
- 250
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 7.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- nrs.harvard.edu
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Historical Medical Research and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Keywords
- randomized controlled trials, gold standard, evidence-based medicine, research methodology, big data, intervention evaluation, history of clinical research
- MeSH terms
- Gold, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Reference Standards, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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