title: Tackling bias in assessing the effects of health care interventions: early contributions from James Lind, Alexander Lesassier Hamilton and T. Graham Balfour.
authors.affiliation: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Milne
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D012606:Scotland