Clinical trials for tinnitus: study populations, designs, measurement variables, and data analysis

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2007, Pages 499-509

  Tyler, Richard S ^a,b   Oleson, Jacob ^a,b   Noble, William ^a,b   Coelho, Claudia ^a,b   Ji, Helena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinically significant; tinnitus; tinnitus handicap questionnaire; tinnitus measurement; tinnitus severity

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TINNITUS;

EID: 35348850860     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)66048-8     Document Type: Review

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