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https://doi.org/10.4081/btvb.2022.24

The night of randomized clinical trials where all patients are black: a need to estimate variability in treatment effects

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Published: 22 March 2022
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Randomized clinical trials, Individual variability, Evidence- based medicine, Personalized medicine, Antiplatelet drugs

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Giovanni de Gaetano
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy.
Chiara Cerletti
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy.
Licia Iacoviello
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy; EPIMED Research Center, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
Maria Benedetta Donati
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy.

In the Sixties, the few anti-thrombotic drugs available were administered following several criteria including tradition of the “School”, preference of the doctor in charge, pressure of pharmaceutical companies [...]

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de Gaetano G, Cerletti C, Iacoviello L, Donati MB. The night of randomized clinical trials where all patients are black: a need to estimate variability in treatment effects. Bleeding Thromb Vasc Biol [Internet]. 2022 Mar. 22 [cited 2026 Apr. 19];1(1). Available from: https://www.btvb.org/btvb/article/view/24
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