Intention-to-treat analysis in randomized trials: Who gets counted?

Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 667-672

  Gibaldi, Milo ^a   Sullivan, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030881070     PISSN: 00912700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1552-4604.1997.tb04353.x     Document Type: Article

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