Equipoise, design bias, and randomized controlled trials: the elusive ethics of new drug development.

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Published in Arthritis Res Ther on March 18, 2004

Authors

James F Fries1, Eswar Krishnan

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA. jff@stanford.edu

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