False Dichotomies and Health Policy Research Designs: Randomized Trials Are Not Always the Answer
Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 204 - 209
Published: Oct 18, 2016
Abstract
Some medical scientists argue that only data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are trustworthy. They claim data from natural experiments and administrative data sets are always spurious and cannot be used to evaluate health policies and other population-wide phenomena in the real world. While many acknowledge biases caused by poor study designs, in this article we argue that several valid designs using administrative data can produce...
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Title
False Dichotomies and Health Policy Research Designs: Randomized Trials Are Not Always the Answer
Published Date
Oct 18, 2016
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
204 - 209
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