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

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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
Subjects:	Health services Learning curve Randomised clinical trial Run-in period
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44914/

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