HistoryMedicine
DOI: 10.1177/01410768261419045

Abstract

My skill, if any, was, I believe, in offering the clinician something simple that he could understand - and all that I could understand. If one had started with something abstruse, the answer would have been ‘Go to Hell’ – and we would still be there.

Citation format

MATTHEWS, R. The problematic history of randomised controlled trials part 2: Hill’s ‘pragmatic’ view of randomisation and its origins. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 2026, 119(2): 55–58.