The TB trials
John Crofton pioneered the randomised controlled trial in a 1948 BMJ paper which looked at the antibiotic streptomycin to treat TB. Shortly before his death in 2009, Dr Crofton spoke to Professor Colin Blakemore about the importance of randomisation and blinding, and how it has helped to make medicine more evidence based.







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