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BOOK REVIEW
The Handbook of Clinical Trials and Other Research
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Clinicians are notorious for embarking upon research without a full understanding of methodology. Perhaps in the past clinical journals were guilty of publishing papers without being sufficiently critical. No doubt this was a byproduct of well meant refereeing by clinicians who were themselves hamstrung methodologically, and lacking insight.
In the new world of publications, the research design has to be explicit, well laid out, and sufficiently robust to support the …