Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis AW; Azar M; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Lyubenova A; Malo Vázquez de Lara AL; Kloda LA; Benedetti A; Shrier I; Platt RW; Kimmelman J;

Objectives: We evaluated whether sample sizes in different arms of two-arm parallel group randomized controlled trials of nonregulated interventions were systematically closer in size than would plausibly occur by chance if simple randomization had been applied. Study design and setting: We sear ...

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Author(s): Azar M; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Sanchez T; Chiovitti M; Qi L; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Levis AW; Kloda LA; Kimmelman J; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Importance: Many interventions that are important to the health care of patients are not subject to regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or comparable regulatory bodies in other nations. Objective: To determine whether specialty journals that publish trials of primarily nonreg ...

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