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Participant recruitment and attrition in surgical randomised trials with placebo controls versus non-operative controls: a meta-epidemiological study and meta-analysis

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  • Pragadesh Natarajan St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Spiro Menounos St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Harris St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSt George and Sutherland Centre for Clinical Orthopaedic Research Limited, (SCORe), Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Masiath Monuja St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSt George and Sutherland Centre for Clinical Orthopaedic Research Limited, (SCORe), Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alexandra Gorelik Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaMusculoskeletal Health and Wiser Health Care Units, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Teemu Karjalainen Department of Musculoskeletal Diseases, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rachelle Buchbinder Musculoskeletal Health and Wiser Health Care Units, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian A Harris South West Sydney Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Justine M Naylor South West Sydney Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sam Adie St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSt George and Sutherland Centre for Clinical Orthopaedic Research Limited, (SCORe), Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Pragadesh Natarajan; pragadeshnat9{at}hotmail.com; Associate Professor Sam Adie; sam.adie{at}gmail.com
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Natarajan P, Menounos S, Harris L, et al
Participant recruitment and attrition in surgical randomised trials with placebo controls versus non-operative controls: a meta-epidemiological study and meta-analysis

Publication history

  • Received September 25, 2023
  • Accepted March 22, 2024
  • First published April 18, 2024.
Online issue publication 
April 18, 2024

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