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Is Your ‘Double-Blind’ Design Truly Double-Blind?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alison Oxtoby ,
Angela Jones  and
Michael Robinson
Alison Oxtoby*
Affiliation:
Whiston Hospital, Warrington Road, Prescot, Merseyside
Angela Jones
Affiliation:
St Helens & Knowsley, District Health Authority, Tower Hill Health Centre, Moorfield, Tower Hill, Kirkby, Liverpool
Michael Robinson
Affiliation:
Southport General Infirmary, Occupational Therapy, Day Hospital, Curzon Road, Southport, Merseyside PR9 0LT
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∗ Correspondence
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Before a drug trial, researchers reasonably plan that participants will remain ignorant of which drug each patient is taking, reflected in the use of allegedly identical preparations. However, only rarely is this plan subjected to systematic scrutiny after the event, and our point of view is that this is unsatisfactory.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 5 , November 1989 , pp. 700 - 701
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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