Health services changes: is a run-in period necessary before evaluation in randomised clinical trials?

Background Most randomised clinical trials (RCTs) testing a new health service do not allow a run-in period of consolidation before evaluating the new approach. Consequently, health professionals involved may feel insufficiently familiar or confident, or that new processes or systems that are int...

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Main Authors: Rathod, Trishna, Belcher, John, Montgomery, Alan A., Salisbury, Chris, Foster, Nadine
Format: Article
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44914/