What research is there on the use of RCTs by the UK government?
December 12, 2014 8:41 AM   Subscribe

A few years ago, Ben Goldacre and some people from the Cabinet Office published a paper, 'Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials' calling for UK government departments to use more randomised controlled trials in the formulation and evaluation of UK public policy. Can anyone point me to research tracking RCT usage by the UK government both before and after the publication of the report?

Ideally, this would break down RCT usage by Department/arms length body. I know the EEF fund a lot of RCTs, and have searched gov.uk for 'rct' and 'randomised controlled trials' etc, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel unnecessarily.
posted by knapah to Law & Government (2 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Perhaps you know about this already but Nesta do work in this area.
posted by roolya_boolya at 1:25 PM on December 17, 2014


Response by poster: Thanks roolya_boolya. There doesn't seem to be a central repository really, although searching via ISRCTN helped me find a few.
posted by knapah at 1:07 PM on January 11, 2015


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