The methodological quality of cluster randomised controlled trials for managing tropical parasitic disease: a review of trials published from 1998 to 2007

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-436

  Bowater, Russell J ^a   Abdelmalik, Sally M E ^a   Lilford, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster trials; Intraclass correlation; Malaria; Parasitic disease; Systematic review; Trial design

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

BED NET; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TROPICAL DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; PARASITIC DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 63249091030     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.01.015     Document Type: Review

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