Baum ML, Anish DS, Chalmers TC, Sacks HS, Smith H, Fagerstrom RM (1981) - The James Lind Library The James Lind Library

Baum ML, Anish DS, Chalmers TC, Sacks HS, Smith H, Fagerstrom RM (1981)

A survey of clinical trials of antibiotic prophylaxis in colon surgery: Evidence against further use of no-treatment controls. New England Journal of Medicine 305:795-799.

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Thomas. C. Chalmers (1917-1995)

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Dickersin K, Chalmers F (2014).
Thomas C Chalmers (1917-1995): a pioneer of randomized clinical trials and systematic reviews.
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History of evidence synthesis to assess treatment effects: personal reflections on something that is very much alive.

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Rennie D, Chalmers I (2009).
Exposing the dangers to patients of medical reviews and textbooks that ignore scientific principles.

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