Accounting for expected attrition in the planning of community intervention trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2615-2628

  Taljaard, Monica ^a   Donner, Allan ^b   Klar, Neil ^c  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trial; Follow up rates; Intracluster correlation; Loss to follow up; Missing data mechanism; Sample size calculation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; PLANNING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34249682530     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2733     Document Type: Article

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