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well-conducted

British  

adjective

  1. (of research, business, an operation, etc) led, conducted, or carried out in a satisfactory manner

  2. (of a person or animal) behaving in a satisfactory manner

    well-conducted, tidy creatures

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Overall, we need larger, well-conducted studies to understand which therapies work and for whom they work best.

From Washington Post

But Prof Paul Pharoah, professor of cancer epidemiology, University of Cambridge, said that the NHS "should not be investing in such a test before it has been adequately evaluated in well-conducted, large-scale clinical trials."

From BBC

Burying the findings of a well-conducted study that didn’t turn out as expected would be worse, they wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

Any system of medicine, whether modern or alternative, must back up claims of efficacy with well-conducted trials, he says.

From Science Magazine

“Let’s put our work into running some proper trials, and see if this effect holds up in well-conducted studies,” Dahly says.

From Science Magazine