The role of noninferiority designs in clinical research

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1050-1052

  Giangregorio, Lora ^a   Cook, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BIOEQUIVALENCE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 44849134143     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01714.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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