Sample size review in a head injury trial with ordered categorical responses

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2835-2847

  Bolland, K ^a   Sooriyarachchi, M R ^b   Whitehead, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELIPRODIL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISABILITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTRAGASTRIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PIPERIDINES; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032583385     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981230)17:24<2835::AID-SIM933>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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