Studies should be controlled, randomized, and blinded

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 461-463

  Parker, R A ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA;

ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUP; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; PATIENTS; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 65249152450     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2009.13     Document Type: Short Survey

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