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The History of Clinical Trials

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Here we review the history of clinical trials. We focus specifically on surgical trials along with the ethics and design of randomized controlled trials.

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Hu, J., Barr, J., Beasley, G.M. (2020). The History of Clinical Trials. In: Pawlik, T., Sosa, J. (eds) Clinical Trials. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35488-6_1

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