Thursday, March 22, 2007

Narrow Eligibility Criteria Threaten Applicability of Clinical Trial...

Narrow Eligibility Criteria Threaten Applicability of Clinical Trial...: "Randomized controlled trials are essential for effective medical policy decisions and for maintaining up-to-date medical practice, but the applicability of the results is threatened when eligibility criteria are too strict, exclusive, or inadequately defined, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association for March 21."