Sample size calculations for 3-level cluster randomized trials

Clinical Trials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 486-495

  Teerenstra, Steven ^a   Moerbeek, Mirjam ^b   van Achterberg, Theo ^a   Pelzer, Ben J ^c   Borm, George F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 59349085214     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774508096476     Document Type: Article

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