Statistical issues in the design and analysis of expertise-based randomized clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 6583-6596

  Walter, S D ^a   Ismaila, A S ^a   Devereaux, P J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Expertise; Randomized clinical trial; Statistical efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TIBIA FRACTURE;

BONE NAILS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 63249121431     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3448     Document Type: Article

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