Power and sample size of therapeutic trials in procedural dermatology: How many patients are enough?

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-205

  Alam, Murad ^a,c   Barzilai, David A ^b   Wrone, David A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Dermatology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SKIN SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOLOGY; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TUMOR;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 15044345355     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200502000-00015     Document Type: Review

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