Quality assurance of asthma clinical trials

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-156

  Malmstrom, Kerstin ^a   Peszek, Iza ^a   Al Botto, ^a   Lu, Susan ^a   Enright, Paul L ^b   Reiss, Theodore F ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Clinical trials; Maneuver induced bronchospasm; Quality control; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOMATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIROMETER; SPIROMETRY; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0036203348     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(01)00197-0     Document Type: Article

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