Mediators, moderators, and modulators of causal effects in clinical trials - Dynamically Modified Outcomes (DYNAMO) in health-related quality of life

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-145

  Donaldson, Gary W ^a   Nakamura, Yoshio ^a   Moinpour, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal effect; Individual differences; Intervention; Mediation; Moderation; Relational outcome

Indexed keywords

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 59849127975     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-008-9439-x     Document Type: Article

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