[Over-the-border evidence: the relevance of results of non-Western RCTs].
Increasing numbers of randomised-controlled trials are performed in non-Western countries. The main reason for this tendency are the lower costs needed to perform trials in non-Western countries. It has been shown that results from trials performed in non-Western countries sometimes overestimate the effects compared to trials with the same intervention performed in Western countries. This means that results from trials performed in non-Western countries are not automatically generalisable to Western countries.
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, afd. Klinische Epidemiologie, Leiden.
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D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*