Factors associated with patients' loss to follow-up after finishing randomized clinical trial participation

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-44

  Strusberg, Ingrid ^a   Bertoli, Ana M ^a   Ramos, Mariela ^a   Fierro, Gonzalo ^a   Pizzolato, Ruth ^a   Exeni, Ida ^a   Strusberg, Alberto M ^a  

^a Centro Reumatologico Strusberg   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Loss to follow up; Physician patient relationship; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTPATIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; TABLET FORMULATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 17844401734     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2004.11.016     Document Type: Article

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