Time trends in personnel certification and turnover in the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study

Clinical Trials

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-386

  Mobley, Reńe Y ^a   Moy, Claudia S ^a   Reynolds, Sandra M ^a   Diener West, Marie ^a   Newhouse, M Marvin ^a   Kerman, Jonathan S ^a   Hawkins, Barbara S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE TUMOR; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

CERTIFICATION; EYE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28244447193     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1740774504cn031oa     Document Type: Article

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