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The evaluation of treatments in medicine has progressed at an accelerated pace in the last half century. No development has been more central to this progress than the advent of the randomized controlled clinical trial. Sir Austin Bradford Hill, who was the father of this scientific genre was judged by the President of the Royal College of Physicians to have made a contribution to medicine “as important and valuable as the discovery of penicillin.”1
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Lemp, M.A. (1994). Dry Eye Syndromes: Treatment and Clinical Trials. In: Sullivan, D.A. (eds) Lacrimal Gland, Tear Film, and Dry Eye Syndromes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 350. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2417-5_94
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