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MRC Streptomycin Trial 1948 (James Lind Library)

The James Lind Library

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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.

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