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Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working

  • Written by Tim Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University

Described as “one of the simplest, most powerful and revolutionary tools of research”, the randomised controlled trial (RCT) has yielded a great deal of important information in the health sciences. It is usually held up as the “gold standard” for gathering medical evidence.

The RCT can tell us which procedure or treatment...

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