The design and analysis of split-mouth studies: What statisticians and clinicians should know

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 3470-3482

  Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a,b   Philstrom, Bruce ^c,d   Needleman, Ian ^e   Worthington, Helen ^f  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Oral Health Research Department   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dental clinical trials; Intra subject comparisons; Oral health research; Split mouth design

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH; DENTITION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLIT MOUTH DESIGN; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARNISH;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CHLORHEXIDINE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; THYMOL;

EID: 70449703350     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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