Placebo comparator group selection and use in surgical trials: the ASPIRE project including expert workshop.

David J Beard Marion K Campbell Jane M Blazeby Andrew J Carr Charles Weijer Brian H Cuthbertson Rachelle Buchbinder Thomas D Pinkney Felicity L Bishop Jonathan Pugh Sian Cousins Ian A Harris L Stefan Lohmander Natalie S Blencowe Katie Gillies Pascal Probst Carol Brennan Andrew Cook Dair Farrar-Hockley Julian Savulescu Richard Huxtable Amar Rangan Irene Tracey Peter Brocklehurst Manuela Loureiro Ferreira Jon Nicholl Barnaby C Reeves Freddie C Hamdy Samuel Cs Rowley Naomi Lee Jonathan Alistair Cook

Published in: Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (2021)

Funded by the Medical Research Council UK and the National Institute for Health Research as part of the Medical Research Council-National Institute for Health Research Methodology Research programme.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
healthcare
study protocol
randomized controlled trial
cross sectional
clinical practice
clinical trial
double blind
phase iii