Distinctions between fraud, bias, errors, misunderstanding, and incompetence

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 637-650

  DeMets, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Error; Fraud; Incompetence; Misunderstanding; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SULFINPYRAZONE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ERROR; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOGS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 0030663540     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(97)00010-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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