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treatment and control groups. Types of randomized trials The two general types of randomized trials are clinical trials and community trials, with randomized clinical trials being by far the more common. A randomized clinical trial is an experiment with patients as subjects. The goal is to find an effective treatment for a disease or to evaluate an
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