Studying a disease with no home - lessons in trial recruitment from the PATCH II study

Trials

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thomas, Kim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN V; PLACEBO; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; FUNDING; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE RISK; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; LEG; MULTICENTER STUDY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELLULITIS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LEG; PATIENT SELECTION; PENICILLIN V; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950530578     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-22     Document Type: Article

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