Randomized controlled trials : questions, answers, and musings / Alejandro R. Jadad, Murray W. Enkin.

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., [2007], ©2007.

xxiv, 136 pages ; 22 cm

2nd ed.

Rev ed. of: Randomised controlled trials / Alejandro R. Jadad. 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Randomized controlled trials: the basics -- Types of randomized controlled trials -- Bias in randomized controlled trials -- Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials: why, what, how, and by whom? -- Reporting and interpreting individual trials: the essentials -- From individual trials to groups of trials: reviews, meta-analyses and guidelines -- From trials to decisions: the basis of evidence-based health care -- Ethics and clinical trials: are they compatible? -- Reprise: more musings.