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Can results from clinical trials be generalized?

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Randomized clinical trials are powerful tools to refute old prejudices and establish new therapeutic regimes. We propose that they should be afforded a more widespread application in modern clinical medicine.

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  1. Departments of Surgery and Cancer Epidemiology, University Hospital, S-751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lars Holmberg

  2. Academic Department of Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road London, SW3 6JJ, UK

    Michael Baum

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Holmberg, L., Baum, M. Can results from clinical trials be generalized?. Nat Med 1, 734–736 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0895-734

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