Design of the Multicenter Australian Study of Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia in Major Surgery: The MASTER Trial

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 244-256

  Rigg, John R A ^a   Jamrozik, Konrad ^a   Myles, Paul S ^b   Silbert, Brendan ^c   Peyton, Philip ^d   Parsons, Richard W ^a   Collins, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Controlled trial; Epidural analgesia; Randomized; Recruitment bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; AUSTRALIA; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0034019604     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(00)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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