Are certain multicenter randomized clinical trial structures misleading clinical and policy decisions?

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 518-529

  Kraemer, Helena Chmura ^a   Robinson, Thomas N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative; Design; Multicenter; Power; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; REVIEW; RISK;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 24144463763     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2005.05.002     Document Type: Review

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