Letter: Neurosurgical Randomized Controlled Trials—Distance Traveled

Blindness in Randomized Controlled Trials

In combination with randomization, blinding or masking is an important factor in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), particularly in trials that assess therapeutic effects. Here an attempt is made to explain blindness and why it is important. In clinical trials, blinding is defined as the condition imposed on a study in which study participants, health care providers and assessors collecting o...

criteria to assess a randomized controlled pilot study: response to letter

Criteria to Assess a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study: Response to Letter

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. As some problems have been mentioned in article "Should We Rely on the Findings of Each Published Ran-domized Controlled Study?" (1), this letter has been provided to clarify them for journal's readerships. Nowadays, Randomized Clinical Trial studies have been known as gol...

A path uncommonly traveled

A 48-year-old gentleman presented with abdominal pain for 1 year. He had undergone an abdominal surgery for recurrent abdominal pain 10 years back, details of which were not available. Clinical examination, blood chemistries and ultrasound were normal. He underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for evaluation of abdominal pain. Endoscopic examination revealed evidence of gastrojejunostomy with nor...

The road less traveled.