Participant-centered adaptations in caregiver trials: Strategies for managing confounds

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 73-78

  Davis, Linda Lindsey ^a,f   Weaver, Michael ^b   Habermann, Barbara ^b,c   Buckwalter, Kathleen ^d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Institute for Health and Aging   (United States)

^d College of Nursing ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LINEAR MODELS; MORALE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444500195     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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