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Biased results are distorted and prejudiced in favour of one treatment or another. When discussing the assessment of a patient’s progress in a trial, Bradford Hill [8] wrote, “the judgements must be made without any possibility of bias, without any overcompensation for a possible bias, and without any possibility of accusation of bias.”
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Bulpitt, C.J. (1983). How to Ensure that the Results are Free of Bias. In: Randomised Controlled Clinical Trials. Developments in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6358-4_8
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