PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - J M Kendall TI - Designing a research project: randomised controlled trials and their principles AID - 10.1136/emj.20.2.164 DP - 2003 Mar 01 TA - Emergency Medicine Journal PG - 164--168 VI - 20 IP - 2 4099 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/164.short 4100 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/164.full SO - Emerg Med J2003 Mar 01; 20 AB - The sixth paper in this series discusses the design and principles of randomised controlled trials.