Learning about clinical trials: The Western multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial on the effect of caffeine on alertness and cardiovascular parameters

Medical Teacher

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-132

  Østbye, Truls ^a   Pause, Cheryl ^a   Meissner, Ortrun ^b   Feagan, Brian ^a   Brown, James E ^a   Strasberg, Howard R ^a   Dodge, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0031918816     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421599881237     Document Type: Article

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