Making sense of randomization; responses of parents of critically ill babies to random allocation of treatment in a clinical trial

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1337-1355

  Snowdon, Claire ^a   Garcia, Jo ^b   Elbourne, Diana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Clinical trial participation; ECMO; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030839611     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00063-4     Document Type: Article

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