How should randomised trials including multiple pregnancies be analysed?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-219

  Gates, Simon ^a   Brocklehurst, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BABY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PRENATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 1542344919     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2004.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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