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MRC Streptomycin Trial 1948 (James Lind Library)

The James Lind Library

The James Lind Library's record of the Medical Research Council's 1948 streptomycin trial, designed by Austin Bradford Hill and widely credited as the first properly randomized controlled trial.

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Publisher
The James Lind Library
URL
https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/medical-research-council-1948b/
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
2
A specialist history-of-clinical-research library maintained by trial methodologists and named for the same James Lind this atlas's controlled-trial entry already credits; reliable for the uncontested history of the streptomycin trial used here.
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)

This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Concepts, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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