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Hill AB (1960)

Controlled clinical trials. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
By the end of the 1950s, the British Medical Research Council had accumulated substantial experience of designing, running, analysing and reporting controlled trials. Austin Bradford Hill was invited to plan and chair a meeting in Vienna in 1959 to report this experience.

The editors are grateful to:

The Wellcome Trust for making available the portrait of Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991).

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