Expert consensus on contamination in educational trials elicited by a Delphi exercise

Medical Education

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-204

  Howe, Amanda ^a   Keogh Brown, Marcus ^b   Miles, Susan ^b   Bachmann, Max ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Consensus; Delphi technique; Education, medical *standards; Randomised controlled trials *standards; Review publication type

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DELPHI STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33846822884     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02674.x     Document Type: Article

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