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A randomized trial is a prospective study in humans that evaluates the benefits and harms of an intervention against control procedures.
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Kestenbaum, B. (2019). Randomized Trials. In: Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96644-1_8
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