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Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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4 blogs
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Title
Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2011
DOI 10.1002/14651858.mr000012.pub3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jan Odgaard‐Jensen, Gunn E Vist, Antje Timmer, Regina Kunz, Elie A Akl, Holger Schünemann, Matthias Briel, Alain J Nordmann, Silvia Pregno, Andrew D Oxman

Abstract

Randomised trials use the play of chance to assign participants to comparison groups. The unpredictability of the process, if not subverted, should prevent systematic differences between comparison groups (selection bias). Differences due to chance will still occur and these are minimised by randomising a sufficiently large number of people.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
United States 2 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Unknown 331 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 71 21%
Student > Bachelor 46 13%
Researcher 40 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 11%
Student > Postgraduate 20 6%
Other 70 20%
Unknown 59 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 130 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 12%
Psychology 17 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 3%
Social Sciences 11 3%
Other 51 15%
Unknown 82 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2021.
All research outputs
#1,101,791
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,246
of 11,842 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,178
of 120,465 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#5
of 99 outputs
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