Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control
treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups,
and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such
as the use of a random-numbers table
Note générale sur le champ d'application :
for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of randomized controlled trials;
a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL is used for reports of a specific
randomized trial