title: The randomized clinical trial.
abstract: Randomized clinical trials were developed to eliminate biases inherent in clinical medicine. Six types of bias that can occur during patient selection and treatment allocation and in the collection and analysis of the data have been identified. A variation of the prospective randomized clinical trial, the nonrandomized surgeon design, overcomes biases specific to surgical investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Small Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Budsberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015982:Bias; D015588:Observer Variation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000662:veterinary*