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The inset in the Figure 1 represents a model of the classic equipoise model.
As a result, and unlike in the proposed trust model (see below), patients and researchers utilities in the equipoise model can be considered equivalent.
Under typical randomization of 50%, in the trust model, unlike in the equipoise model, the most rational strategy for the researcher and patient is not to cooperate.
In fact, in the case of the scenario shown in the inset, the tree reduces to the equipoise model discussed above.
Similarly, in the equipoise model, the differences in the potential values that patients and researchers may have related to outcomes obtained in a RCT are rarely discussed [ 39, 47].
This is in contrast to the equipoise model where 50% of randomization represents the right value, helping reconcile the theory of human experimentation with the theory of rational choice [ 4].
Even though there is a clear benefit to society in defining if maternal nutritional intervention, decreasing maternal intake of polyphenols in late pregnancy, improves fetal ductal constriction, the two remaining points of the triangle of the conceptual model of equipoise are not fulfilled.
The answer to that question, considering the conceptual model to obtain a state of equipoise, is "no"!
Although there is a slight difference in the recruitment process for the trial at the two sites, the integrity of the randomisation process is safeguarded by the fact that there is equipoise in the decision process for women regarding which model of care they will receive.
Although our model represents knowledge obtained from 2,128 SAH patients in equipoise regarding treatment, statistical models can never replace the clinician with regard to decision making; they can only assist with this task.
The work of Verhoef and colleagues highlights the importance of model validity, and they offer four broad headings under which assessment of homeopathy RCTs might take place: "representativeness"; "equipoise and credibility"; "model congruity"; "context" [ 7].
