Definition: Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.
this heading is used as a Publication Type; for original report of the conduct or results of a specific randomized controlled trial; a different heading RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC is used for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of ran
