Combined bias suppression in single-arm therapy studies

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 923-929

  Hamre, Harald J ^a   Glockmann, Anja ^a   Kienle, Gunver S ^a   Kiene, Helmut ^a  

^a Institut fur angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und medizinische Methodologie e V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias suppression; Patient dropouts; Prospective studies; Regression to the mean; Research design; Spontaneous remission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE COURSE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ADULT; ANTHROPOSOPHY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55349141826     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00903.x     Document Type: Article

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