Approaches to monitoring the results of long-term disease prevention trials: Examples from the Women's Health Initiative

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 509-525

  Freedman, Laurence ^a   Anderson, Garnet ^b   Kipnis, Victor ^a   Prentice, Ross ^b   Wang, C Y ^b   Rossouw, Jacques ^c   Wittes, Janet ^d   Demets, David ^e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical trials; data and safety monitoring; disease prevention; multiple endpoints; stopping rules

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ERGOCALCIFEROL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MORTALITY; SAFETY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0030339908     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(96)00016-5     Document Type: Article

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