Dear Doctor: Was the COVID vaccine put through this one, rigorous type of testing?

You mentioned in a recent column that prospective randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a powerful type of study. Can you ...
ssir.org

Rethinking RCTs

Rigorous impact evaluations have become increasingly important to guide the direction and scaling of social impact programs. In 2000, only 39 impact evaluations of work performed in low- and ...
The Cardiology Advisor

African Countries Underrepresented in Leading Cardiovascular and Medical RCTs

Major medical and CV journals significantly underrepresent African countries in randomized controlled trials, compared with disease burden.
STAT

Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, before we had vaccines and effective medical procedures, the only ways to prevent transmission of the virus were behavioral measures like face masks and social ...
Health Affairs

Achieving Medicaid Goals Through Test And Learn: The Role Of RCTs

Medicaid programs across the county are interested in developing and running innovative and cost-effective programs to address myriad health challenges facing our communities. At the Connecticut ...
RAPS

When are RCTs Required for Breakthrough Drugs, HDEs? JAMA Study Investigates

A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that drugs and medical devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based solely on non-randomized controlled trials (RCTs) exhibited larger ...
Healio

Exclusion, refusal rates moderate in youth suicide prevention RCTs

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found moderate rates of exclusion and refusal in youth suicide prevention randomized controlled ...