Turning a blind eye: Authors have blinkered view of blinding

EDITOR—Fergusson et al consider a trial to be double blind when the patient, investigators, andoutcome assessors are unaware of the patient's assigned treatment throughout the conduct of the trial.1 They are quite wrong to do so. The whole point of a successful double blind trial is that there should be unblinding through efficacy. That is to say that there should be …