Open AccessLack of Head-to-head Trials and Fair Control Arms
Author(s) -
Candice Estellat
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1209
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical trial , placebo , randomized controlled trial , rheumatoid arthritis , placebo response , physical therapy , alternative medicine , pathology
One of the key elements of comparative treatment effectiveness research is head-to-head trials. We herein describe the control arms and the treatment received by patients in recently conducted or ongoing randomized controlled trials of biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for rheumatoid arthritis.
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