Determinants of patient recruitment in a multicenter clinical trials group: Trends, seasonality and the effect of large studies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-11

  Haidich, Anna Bettina ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TIME;

EID: 3142655264     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-1-4     Document Type: Article

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