Bias in treatment trials

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 599-601

  Davies, Huw T O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARMACOKINETICS; RANDOMIZATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033170155     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.1999.60.8.1183     Document Type: Article

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