“GOLD STANDARD” OF CLINICAL TRIALS: RANDOMIZATION AND CAUSALITY
Alina Mikhailovna Slesareva
Novosibirsk State Medical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: randomization, controlled clinical trials, causality
Abstract
This article begins a series of works on the conceptual analysis of the epistemological characteristics of ideas about the “gold standard” of medical research methodology. The results of the genesis of ideas concerning the relationship between the concept of randomization and that of causality are presented, and the grounds for randomization as a means of establishing causal relationships are analyzed.,
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