{"id":6,"date":"2007-07-11T14:27:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/2007\/07\/11\/remember-rambo-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:27:27","slug":"remember-rambo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2007\/07\/11\/remember-rambo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Rambo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Back in 1982<\/strong>, when some of the readers of this journal were being tucked  up in bed, others were doing the tucking-up and yet more had already  fallen asleep in their armchairs, Sylvester Stallone wandered half-naked  around the outskirts of a fictional US town in the film &#8220;First Blood&#8221;.  However, this memorable character (John Rambo) has nothing to do with EBM.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RAMbo is another EBM mnemonic. This one deals with step 3 &#8211; critical  appraisal &#8211; of the process. (To recap, EBM is to Ask, Acquire, Appraise,  Apply and Assess.) <strong>R<\/strong> &#8211; is the population <em>representative<\/em>? Were  treatments <em>randomly<\/em> allocated in a concealed manner? <strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; how  complete was the <em>ascertainment<\/em>? Did they get everyone they could have?  Remember 5 &amp; 20 (less than 5% loss &#8211; no problems, more than 20% loss &#8211;  big problems). <strong>M b o<\/strong> &#8211; Were the <em>measurements<\/em> the same in all groups?  What did they measure? Were they <em>blinded<\/em> or <em>objective<\/em> (or both)?  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