Talk:Allocation concealment

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timing[edit]

"Adequate allocation concealment should prevent study participants and study personnel from determining treatment allocation before a study begins" <-- It should be pointed out that allocations aren't necessarily generated before a study begins. They are commonly generated when a participant is recruited, which can be during the trial/experiment. EnsiremT (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Methods[edit]

I would like to have a section on methods of allocation concealment. It could talk about the frequency of each (if such data is available) as well as pros and cons. --Wikiman2718 (talk) 00:06, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Non-medical trials[edit]

Randomized controlled experiments are also used in a variety of fields (economics, farming, education, psychology, etc.). The current focus of the article is medical clinical trials... should it be broadened instead? For instance central allocation is a rare thing in educational trials and few research (to my knowledge) has focused on the effects of poor allocation concealment in education. EnsiremT (talk) 05:51, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this article should be about allocation concealment in general. It well-studies in medicine, but should be used in all randomized trials. --Wikiman2718 (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution[edit]

This initial text for this page was copied from Randomized controlled trial. --Wikiman2718 (talk) 22:32, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]