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The 131 pages that link to Randomized controlled trial, each with the reason it gives.

• OverdiagnosisNarrower topic: Long-term comparisons of screened and unscreened groups can help estimate excess diagnoses.

• PlaceboNarrower topic: Random assignment helps estimate whether an active treatment outperforms a placebo.

• Field experimentNarrower topic: Field experiments often use random assignment to compare interventions under real-world conditions.

• A/B testingNarrower topic: A/B testing is a randomized controlled trial adapted to product and communication decisions.

• Placebo-controlled trialNarrower topic: Random allocation can balance groups in a placebo-controlled trial.

• Intermittent fastingNarrower topic: These trials help separate effects of fasting schedules from differences in participant behavior.

• CannabidiolNarrower topic: Trials using this design established CBD’s seizure-treatment evidence more reliably than anecdotal reports.

• Experimental economicsNarrower topic: Its assignment logic underlies many controlled tests of economic interventions.

• Esther DufloNarrower topic: Duflo uses random assignment to compare policy interventions while limiting selection bias.

• CurcuminNarrower topic: Such trials are needed to distinguish clinical benefits from laboratory findings and expectation effects.

• Abhijit BanerjeeNarrower topic: Banerjee helped establish randomized trials as a tool for testing anti-poverty interventions.

• Alternate-day fastingNarrower topic: Randomized trials help distinguish effects of the schedule from differences between participants.

• Austin Bradford HillNarrower topic: Hill helped demonstrate how random allocation could make treatment comparisons more reliable.

• Michael KremerNarrower topic: Kremer helped establish randomized trials as a method for evaluating development programs.

• BerberineNarrower topic: Well-designed trials are needed to establish whether berberine improves outcomes beyond short-term laboratory measures.

• Delusional parasitosisNarrower topic: Limited controlled treatment evidence makes stronger trials a continuing research need.

• Marsha M. LinehanNarrower topic: Controlled trials helped establish DBT’s effectiveness for borderline personality disorder.

• Nocebo effectNarrower topic: Control groups help separate treatment-specific harms from symptoms that arise through expectation or background rates.

• DietingNarrower topic: Trials help distinguish a diet's effects from differences among people who choose it.