Adaptive designs for randomized trials in public health

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-25

  Brown, C Hendricks ^a   Ten Have, Thomas R ^b   Jo, Booil ^c   Dagne, Getachew ^a   Wyman, Peter A ^d   Muthén, Bengt ^e   Gibbons, Robert D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CACE modeling; Encouragement designs; Growth mixture models; Multilevel trials; Multistage trials; Principal stratification

Indexed keywords

DRUG RESEARCH; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE;

DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650738937     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100223     Document Type: Review

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