Using baseline data to design a group randomized trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1983-1994

  Hughes, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Change from baseline; Group randomized trial; Matching; Prevention trials

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERU; PHARMACIST; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PERU; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 21244495549     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2080     Document Type: Article

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