Marketing therapeutic precision: Potential facilitators and barriers to adoption of n-of-1 trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 436-445

  Kravitz, Richard L ^a   Paterniti, Debora A ^a   Hay, M Cameron ^b   Subramanian, Saskia ^c   Dean, Dionne Evans ^a   Weisner, Thomas ^c   Vohra, Sunita ^d   Duan, Naihua ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Delivery of health care methods; Evidence based medicine; n of 1 trials; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRUST; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIFORNIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68349120371     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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