Randomized Controlled Trials: Questions, Answers and Musings, 2nd Edition

Preface to the first edition.

Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgments from the first edition.

Introduction to the second edition.

Introduction to the first edition.

1. Randomized controlled trials: the basics.

2. Types of randomized controlled trials.

3. Bias in randomized controlled trials.

4. Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials: why, what, how, and by whom?.

5. Reporting and interpreting individual trials: the essentials.

6. From individual trials to groups of trials: reviews, meta-analyses, and guidelines.

7. From trials to decisions: the basis of evidence-based health care.

8. Ethics and clinical trials: are they compatible?.

9. Reprise: more musings.

Index