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	=== 5. Minimizes Selection and Allocation Bias ===		=== 5. Minimizes Selection and Allocation Bias ===
	* Ensures participants and investigators cannot predict or manipulate group assignments.		* Ensures participants and investigators cannot predict or manipulate group assignments.
	* Blinding and allocation concealment further prevent bias.		* [[Blinding]] and [[allocation concealment]] further prevent bias.

	=== 6. Facilitates Ethical Justification ===		=== 6. Facilitates Ethical Justification ===
	* Provides equipoise (genuine uncertainty about treatment benefits), ensuring fair treatment allocation.		* Provides [[equipoise]] (genuine uncertainty about treatment benefits), ensuring fair treatment allocation.
	* Helps ethics committees approve the trial as scientifically rigorous.		* Helps [[ethics]] committees approve the trial as scientifically rigorous.

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	Read about '''[[Implementing randomization]]'''		Read about '''[[Implementing randomization]]'''

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			=== Bibliography ===

			# Schulz KF, Grimes DA. Generation of allocation sequences in randomised trials: chance, not choice. ''The Lancet''. 2002;359(9305):515–519.
			# Altman DG, Bland JM. Statistics notes: how to randomise. ''BMJ''. 1999;319(7211):703–704.
			# Moher D, Hopewell S, Schulz KF, et al. [[CONSORT]] 2010 explanation and elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. ''BMJ''. 2010;340:c869.
			# Piantadosi S. Clinical Trials: A Methodologic Perspective. 3rd ed. Wiley; 2017. Chapter 7: Randomization methods and implementation.
			# Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, et al. (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, version 6.3 (updated February 2022). Cochrane; 2022. Chapter 8: Random sequence generation and allocation concealment.

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			''Adapted for educational use. Please cite relevant trial methodology sources when using this material in research or teaching.''

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	* A well-randomized sample improves external validity, allowing findings to be applied to broader populations.		* A well-randomized sample improves external validity, allowing findings to be applied to broader populations.

	Read about '''[[Implementing ~~Randomization~~]]'''		Read about '''[[Implementing randomization]]'''

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	* A well-randomized sample improves external validity, allowing findings to be applied to broader populations.		* A well-randomized sample improves external validity, allowing findings to be applied to broader populations.

			Read about '''[[Implementing Randomization]]'''

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	~~== Importance of Randomization in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) ==~~

	Randomization is a fundamental feature of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that ensures the study is scientifically valid, unbiased, and ethically sound.		Randomization is a fundamental feature of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that ensures the study is scientifically valid, unbiased, and ethically sound.

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== Importance of Randomization in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) ==

Randomization is a fundamental feature of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that ensures the study is scientifically valid, unbiased, and ethically sound.

=== 1. Eliminates Selection Bias ===
* Randomization ensures that participants are assigned to treatment groups by chance, preventing investigators from influencing allocation.
* This creates comparable groups at baseline, reducing systematic differences between them.

=== 2. Balances Confounding Variables ===
* Known and unknown confounders (e.g., age, sex, disease severity) are evenly distributed across groups.
* This makes treatment effects more reliable and generalizable.

=== 3. Enables Causal Inference ===
* By controlling for bias and confounding, randomization strengthens the ability to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between intervention and outcome.

=== 4. Supports Statistical Validity ===
* Randomization allows the use of probability theory to calculate p-values, confidence intervals, and effect sizes.
* It justifies the use of parametric statistical tests, increasing the power of the study.

=== 5. Minimizes Selection and Allocation Bias ===
* Ensures participants and investigators cannot predict or manipulate group assignments.
* Blinding and allocation concealment further prevent bias.

=== 6. Facilitates Ethical Justification ===
* Provides equipoise (genuine uncertainty about treatment benefits), ensuring fair treatment allocation.
* Helps ethics committees approve the trial as scientifically rigorous.

=== 7. Enhances Generalizability ===
* A well-randomized sample improves external validity, allowing findings to be applied to broader populations.