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The randomized-controlled trial (RCT) is used to determine whether one treatment method is better than another. The RCT is indispensable to “evidence-based medicine” (EBM), and serves as a basis for the approval of numerous therapies implemented in modern medicine. The RCT was first reported in 1948 in a study on the use of streptomycin for pulmonary tuberculosis [1].
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Kogure, A. (2019). Evidence of the AKA-Hakata Method. In: Katada, S. (eds) Principles of Manual Medicine for Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6810-3_9
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