Exploring the use of the sham design for interventional trials: implications for endoscopic research

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-127

  Wilcox, C Mel ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LIGATION; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROL GROUP; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KNEE SURGERY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PLACEBOS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 37349062412     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.09.003     Document Type: Review

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