Sampling patients within and across health care providers: Multi-stage non-nested samples in health services research

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 151-167

  Adams, John L ^a   Schonlau, Matthias ^a   Escarce, José J ^a   Kilgore, Meredith ^b   Schoenbaum, Michael ^a   Goldman, Dana P ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Sampling bias; Sampling studies; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

EID: 4344587245     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HSOR.0000031401.42334.b8     Document Type: Article

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