allocation concealment

The process of concealing information about which patients are to be assigned to a new treatment versus those to be given a conventional therapy. It is believed that bias may be introduced in the allocation concealment process, based on the a priori belief by the investigator that one therapy is better than another.

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concealment of allocation

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