Designing RCT Rapport Archive Research Designing RCT Rapport Issue 48 Publication Date December 28th 2015 Authors Suzanne Henwood Research comes in many guises and there is a ‘Hierarchy of Research Evidence’ which can offer you a guide as to how reliable the findings are and whether or not to use the results to update your practice. In clinical research, the Randomised Control Trial (RCT) is often perceived to be the best (second only to a systematic review or meta-analysis, which is one article which reviews a whole range of RCTs on the same topic, and in the case of a meta-analysis undertakes a whole new set of statistical analysis on the combined data from the review papers – giving much larger sample sizes in total and a good indication of whether results can be replicated over time and... Research To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it