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Only for the past 50 years or so have the authorities bothered to set the conditions by which the commercialization of new medicaments may be permitted. Today, regulations and practices nearly everywhere have imposed the same methodology, the so-called “controlled” trial. In reality, it is doubly controlled, for it concerns not only a comparative study with a “control” group but also an effort for “controlling” the variables of the situation on the experimental model.
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Luccioni, H. (1985). Methodological Problems in Therapeutic Research: Introduction. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Clinical Psychopathology Nomenclature and Classification. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5049-9_32
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