Planning a cluster randomized controlled trial

Nursing Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-134

  Christie, Janice ^b   O'Halloran, Peter ^a   Stevenson, Mike ^b  

^a School of Nursing Midwifery   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trial; Multilevel model; Nested structure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NURSING RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 63549086904     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e3181900cb5     Document Type: Article

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