Practical considerations for estimating clinical trial accrual periods: Application to a multi-center effectiveness study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Carter, Rickey E ^a   Sonne, Susan C ^b   Brady, Kathleen T ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTICENTER STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17844381580     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-5-11     Document Type: Article

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