Blinding

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1. Verb form

of Blind

2. Adjective

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

3. Noun

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

4. Noun

Keeping certain study information hidden to reduce biased behaviour or judgement.

A research procedure that withholds group allocation or study information from participants, researchers or assessors. State who was blinded and to which information.

“Outcome assessors were protected from allocation information through blinding.”
State who was blinded and to which information
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