The randomization center will send the allocated treatment by fax to the local non-blinded staff performing rTMS.
Following consent to the study, the participant will be registered with the Research Centre by fax and allocated a unique trial number.
The coordinating office randomly assigned the patient to a treatment and faxed the investigator the allocated treatment.
After the recruiting doctor had obtained informed consent and enrolled the participant, participants were allocated randomly to treatment policy by phone or fax by way of the minimisation method, which was balanced across centre or region and number of seizures at randomisation.
Registration forms were faxed to Aventis Pharma (Montrouge, France) and the treatment schedule was allocated according to a randomisation list created electronically.
After each patient's inclusion, his/her GP will contact the randomisation centre, where the patient will be registered, and the doctor will be told, by phone and by fax, which of the three arms of the trial the patient has been allocated to.
They have allocated half the budget to renovating burned-out buildings and filling them with modern law books, computers, faxes and other improvements.
In some cases, we used information from vehicle logbooks to allocate vehicle purchase, maintenance, and fuel costs as well as drivers' salary costs (MaiMwana trial) or used fax machine minutes for fax machine costs (Bangladesh trial).
The patients were allocated to the treatment regimen according to a randomisation list generated by a geigy random number table by central fax randomisation.
The improved law library would be reduced to half the size allocated in the previous plan, and in addition, an area where lawyers could confer privately, make telephone calls and receive faxes would be entirely scrapped.
