The use of equipoise in clinical trials

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 891-898

  Chard, J A ^a   Lilford, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Equipoise; Randomised control trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0031822776     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00153-1     Document Type: Article

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