Clinical trial variability: Quality control in a randomized clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-23

  McGregor, Marion ^a   Cambron, Jerrilyn A ^b   Jedlicka, James ^b   Gudavalli, M Ram ^b,c  

^a CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c PALMER CENTER FOR CHIROPRACTIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Reliability; Treatment variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FLEXION DISTRACTION THERAPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; THERAPY; VIGNETTE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 57549085211     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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