title: How to conduct a randomized trial.
abstract: Randomized controlled clinical trials represent the gold standard of research into health-care interventions but conducting a randomized trial requires careful planning, structures and procedures. The conduct of a clinical trial is a collaborative effort between investigators, participants and a range of professionals involved both centrally and locally in the coordination and execution of the study. In this article, the key steps to conducting a randomized controlled trial are summarized.
authors.affiliation: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Suetonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Sankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Navaneethan
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valentini
authors.forename: Giovanni Fm
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Strippoli
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards