November 23, 2012British journal of surgery
The problem of the poor control arm in surgical randomized controlled trials
Key result
Surgical RCTs require greater attention to achieve clinical equipoise and address poor control arms.
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Surgeons should scrutinize control-arm quality before changing practice; researchers must enforce equipoise to improve future surgical trial validity.
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Strobel et al. (2012) studied this question. Surgical randomized controlled trials require greater attention to achieve clinical equipoise and address the problem of poor control arms.